I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar… — Karl Marx 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
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. — E. O. Wilson 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
I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done… — George S. Patton 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
Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world… — Ben Lerner 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
