Peculiar Quotes

555 quotes by 460 authors

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand… — Alfred Adler
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. — Ambrose Bierce
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by… — W. E. B. Du Bois
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. — Martin Buber
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages… — Nelson Algren
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst… — William Ellery Channing
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need… — John Jay Chapman
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and… — Tim Allen
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. — Diane Arbus
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to… — Charles Darwin
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later… — Karl Ernst von Baer
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any… — John B. Jervis
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings.… — Irene Nemirovsky
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,… — Maxine Hong Kingston
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs. — Walter Bradford Cannon

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