Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent. — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have… — Will Willingham Copy Share Image
I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
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
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to… — Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Copy Share Image
The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from… — Henry George Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
“Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise. — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
