Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. — Rohinton Mistry
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what weâ€™re talking… — David Hume
Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its… — James Lee Burke
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak… — Terry Pratchett
It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous. — Daniel Handler
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. — Harper Lee
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.… — Rowan Atkinson
It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold. His body pinned Clary's to the wall.… — Cassandra Clare
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. — George Eliot
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people. — Andy Warhol
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the… — Hannah Arendt
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. — Charles Kennedy
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my… — Mark Twain
Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were… — Jan Struther
Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of… — Tom Peters
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. — Freya Stark
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of… — Vaclav Havel

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