Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes… — Stephen King 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
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority,… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of… — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of… — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life,… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
