Peculiarly Quotes

71 Peculiarly quotes by 59 unique authors

He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. — Christopher Smart
Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the… — Amy Carmichael
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion
If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think… — Wim Wenders
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps… — Robert Watson-Watt
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,… — Thomas Jefferson
If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence… — Harry Blamires
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades. — Robert M. Gates
Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a… — Gregory Bateson
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory. — Martin Amis
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of… — John Desmond Bernal
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its… — Charles Sturt
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time… — Hermann von Helmholtz
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day… — Mark Twain
It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as… — Walter J. Phillips
That peculiarly American religion, President-worship. — Gore Vidal
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its… — John Stuart Mill
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is… — John Locke
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar. — Jeanette Winterson

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