It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash,… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not… — Samuel Alexander 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 peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the… — Carl 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
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
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz 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
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image