Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other… — Abraham Lincoln
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions… — John Locke
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies.… — Alison Lurie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. — Orison Swett Marden
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. — Terence McKenna
I live and love in God's peculiar light. — Michelangelo
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. — Mira Nair
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of… — Guru Nanak
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. — Florence Nightingale
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. — Flannery O'Connor
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt… — Susan Orlean
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. — Grace Paley
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts. — James Patterson
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile. — Robert Plant
There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama… — Paul Ryan
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera:… — Will Self
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to… — Vikram Seth
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of… — Adam Smith
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself… — Billy Sunday
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness… — A. N. Wilson

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