Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them… — Thomas Paine
Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first… — Matthew Continetti
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to… — Theodore Roosevelt
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of,… — Albert Pike
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely… — Henry Fielding
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally… — Noah Webster
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last… — James Weldon Johnson
There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How… — Gerard Verschuuren
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end… — W. Somerset Maugham
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the… — Edgar Allan Poe
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times… — Herbert Hoover
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we… — Carl Jung
My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar… — Charles Spurgeon
It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a… — Diana Wynne Jones
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you… — Mark Twain
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom — Swami Vivekananda
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. — Marshall McLuhan
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. — Henry James
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India… — Tahir Shah
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature… — Immanuel Kant
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik

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