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
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
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
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
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not… — Tench Coxe 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
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
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
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
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
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
“And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein… — Oscar Hertwig Copy Share Image
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image