... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There is this peculiar twist inside me that forbids me to enjoy things that I like unless they are hidden.” — James Rhodes Copy Share Image
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble… — Paul Conrad Copy Share Image
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?" Most of the kids just shrug, but… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Speciàl" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the… — David Lebovitz Copy Share Image
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part.… — John Hurt 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
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
“Even for an inbred clan deep in the swamp, she thought they might well be considered a peculiar bunch, but then the… — Robert Dunbar Copy Share Image
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is. — Happy Chandler Copy Share Image
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations… — Shirley Bassey Copy Share Image
