It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar,… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like… — Fuminori Nakamura Copy Share Image
Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between… — Ben Shahn 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
It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way,… — Jan Jakob Maria de Groot 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
Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal… — Jonathan Swift 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
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
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
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
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must… — Samuel Johnson 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
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but… — James Bryce 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
