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
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
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising… — Will Rogers 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
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that… — James Payn Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift,… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever… — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
