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
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from… — Huston Smith 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 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
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon 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
The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk… — Rabbit Maranville 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
Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling… — Cassandra Clare 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
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar… — Marcel Proust 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
There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does… — Gerard Verschuuren 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
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image