Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic… — Eric Hoffer
Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then… — George A. Sheehan
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved… — L. Harrison Matthews
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen… — William Henry Harrison
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come… — Jessica Powers
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the… — Steven Morrissey
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,… — Josiah Johnson Hawes
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization. — Kingsley Amis
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. — Herman Melville
And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of… — Upton Sinclair
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. — Unknown Author
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms… — Alexander Hamilton
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his… — Thomas Jefferson
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will… — James Madison
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing… — George Eliot

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