Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? — Annie Dillard
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with… — Richard Ford
This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of… — Sylvia Plath
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling… — Richard Paul Evans
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny. — Katherine Neville
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty… — Barbara Mertz
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the… — Alice Walker
Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful. — Shane Claiborne
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for… — Douglas Adams
I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat.… — Julia Quinn
I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is… — Julia Quinn
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered,… — Emily Bronte
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a… — Richard Paul Evans
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] — W. Somerset Maugham
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. — P T Barnum
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call… — Wallace Stegner
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and… — A. S. Byatt
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis. — Mary MacLane
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing… — Sylvia Plath
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so… — Ray Bradbury
I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I… — Barbara Mertz

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