The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the… — Herman Melville 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
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer… — Leonard Bloomfield Copy Share Image
...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar… — Cara Lockwood Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues. — Samuel West Copy Share Image
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves. — August Bier 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
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive. — Salley Vickers Copy Share Image
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
