Peculiar Quotes
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 bondage to irremediable weakness.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.
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 time, were very peculiar indeed.
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.
What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.
Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.