Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most… — Samuel Johnson
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a… — Lydia M. Child
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is… — Arthur Hertzberg
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things… — Stanley Kubrick
Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education;… — Frederick Douglass
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved… — Charles Darwin
I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on our inheritance, if… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the… — John McGahern
There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of… — Carl Rogers
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the… — Angelina Grimke
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace.… — Gustav Mahler
We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must… — J C Ryle
Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of… — Alexander Calder
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. — Marcus Aurelius
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some… — Simon Newcomb
Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous. — Thomas Ligotti
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a… — Frank Rich

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