A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and… — William Carey Copy Share Image
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation. — Samuel Johnson 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
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character… — William James Copy Share Image
“We're not peculiar." "Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women)… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
“It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds. — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not. — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“No, Dad. I’m peculiar.” Then I hung up the phone, and speaking a language I didn’t know I knew, I ordered the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny. — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
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