The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,… — Herman Melville 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
The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the… — Ada Lovelace 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
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought… — Lucy Larcom 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
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the… — Charles Dickens 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 think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want… — Lydia M. Child 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