Particular Quotes

“I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.”
― Alison Mosshart

“After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“It was a long time before the Snork came back with the wood. "Well, there you are at last," said his sister.
"It took quite a time, said the Snork, "because, of course, I had to find pieces that were all exactly the same length."
"Is he always so particular?" asked Snufkin.
"He was born like that," said the Snork Maiden.”
― Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland

“Simply become aware of your thoughts and actions. Become attentive to yourself .Meditation is not something that is only done in a particular posture or situation. It is an attitude towards life.”
― Anupama Garg

“All mythologies become outdated as the concept of goodness keeps evolving. Every ‘good’ of a particular time becomes ‘evil’ as time changes.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular".”
― Peter Kreeft, Prayer: The Great Conversation

“God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What the hell was that?” he asked no-one in particular. “Did they ram us?”
“Uh – negative, sir.” Marnetti offered, reading an instrumental assessment from his display, “It seems we were hit by some kind of pulse wave generated by their jump.”
“Their jump? – You mean by arriving they nearly killed us?”
Marnetti nodded, continuing, “Range 0.5 kilometers, Captain. Holding steady. No recognized weapons activity.”
“Damage report.” He ordered, feeling his way back into his seat, eyes glued to the viewscreen.
“Shield 2 down, 1 is buckling.” Pluddeman choked.
“Power stable, all systems holding steady,” Marnetti added, now rubbing some bruises.
“Any communications?”
“Nothing, sir. Static on all frequencies.”
“What are they doing?”
“Nothing, sir. Waiting maybe.”
“Waiting, my ass!” Dayne barked. “They must be sizing us up!”
― Christina Engela, Space Sucks!

“...the more students recognize their own uniqueness and particularity, the more they listen.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“La verdad es que para mí casi todas las mujeres son bellas ya que cada una tiene algo especial, es decir, una gracia particular. Y digo casi porque aquellas que se pueden llamar feas, fueron bellas alguna vez, su problema es que con sus actitudes se volvieron feas.

Frase de "La noche es húmeda”
― David Elías Cotos Espinoza, Una mujer sin historia

“La verdad es que para mí casi todas las mujeres son bellas ya que cada una tiene algo especial, es decir, una gracia particular. Y digo casi porque aquellas que se pueden llamar feas, fueron bellas alguna vez, su problema es que con sus actitudes se volvieron feas.”
― David Elías Cotos Espinoza, Una mujer sin historia

“Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Time of preparation on a particular work could also cause increase to the work”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.”
― Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry

“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“When diagnosing my long term health problems, it was logical to inspect the environmental exposures that occurred at the workplaces where I saw the onset of each particular health issue.”
― Steven Magee

“It is, as it were, the fundamental principle of cognition that the universal can be perceived only in the particular, while the particular can be thought only in reference to the universal.”
― Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

“Language necessarily involves bringing any particular under more and more general and universal labels. That’s what conceptualization is all about: reducing particular things to fewer and fewer generalizations and universals, until, ultimately, reality is reduced to just one universal, the supreme concept that explains everything. This one concept is the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). The whole point of concepts is to reach more and more general and universal levels until we ultimately arrive at one concept – the ultimate universal which explains the whole of reality. That concept is the PSR.”
― Thomas Stark, The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes

“There’s plenty of love in the world, but there’s even more hate. In fact, every time love increases, hate increases even more. Love is always directed towards a minority (or even just one person), and therefore indifference or active hate is directed towards the majority. Since love is conferred on the minority and hate on the majority, the growth of hate always outstrips that of love. Our world is now fantastically full of hate, and the more it preaches the rhetoric of “love”, the more the hate grows. The Devil himself couldn’t have constructed any better device than love for spreading hate!”
― Joe Dixon, The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos

“It's wrong to encase a monster in flesh, to give it a face. It belittles the darkness, makes it smaller, dimmer, to decant it into the image of one particular man .”
― Alex de Campi, Dracula, Motherf**ker!

“Extreme specialization has been the greatest disaster of the modern academic world. It has created narrow Mandarins, ignorant of the universal nature of reality, incapable of connecting concepts from different fields to bring everything together in one ultimate, unified subject. The AC is everything the academic world is not. It’s about connecting everything. It demands that people be generalists, not the most narrow, blinkered specialists.”
― David Sinclair

“It’s not about the Game of Thrones, it’s about the game of universals versus particulars, thinking versus sensing. Which side are you on? Who shall wear the crown? – the Senser or the Thinker. Do you even need to think about that?”
― David Sinclair, Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War