Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...I started photographing myself, and found that I could see portions of myself that I had never seen before. Since I face… — Lucas Samaras 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
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon 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
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal… — Henry James Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply… — S. Parkes Cadman Copy Share Image
Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice… — Pierre Trudeau 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
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. — Colin McEnroe Copy Share Image
The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing. — Marsha Mason Copy Share Image
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light… — Jack Gould 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