[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right… — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr.… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely… Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
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It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence… — Susan Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Copy Share Image
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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