Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved… — Charles Darwin
I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on our inheritance, if… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the… — John McGahern
There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of… — Carl Rogers
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the… — Angelina Grimke
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace.… — Gustav Mahler
We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must… — J C Ryle
Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of… — Alexander Calder
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. — Marcus Aurelius
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some… — Simon Newcomb
Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous. — Thomas Ligotti
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a… — Frank Rich
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. — Washington Allston
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works… — Clive Bell
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. — Carly Simon
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a… — Ernst Haeckel
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development… — Dennis Ritchie
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out… — Jelly Roll Morton
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate… — Walter Savage Landor
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be… — M.C. Escher
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except… — Unknown Author
Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the… — Imre Lakatos

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