Peculiar Quotes
Peculiar Quote of the day
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.
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 to possess.
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. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.
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 down to me, my beautiful unknown.
We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.
We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.
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 theory, is it then a science or faith?
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.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
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 account of it may be of interest.
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.
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 the best of things.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.
The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.