Top 968 Peculiar Quotes & Sayings

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

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.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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 have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the peculiar divergence of man ... Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

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 we will walk in obedience before the Lord, if we will simply live the gospel we will be blessed in a magnificent and wonderful way. We will be looked upon as a peculiar people who have found the key to a peculiar happiness.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

I'm a peculiar type.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the netscreen. "Let me tell you what is peculiar about it" "I'd say 36.28 percent of it is pretty peculiar

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Love is a peculiar thing.

Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

God is gracious to some very peculiar people.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

I'm the guy on the corner that is slightly peculiar but fun and funky.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

Brits have a peculiar sense of humour. I love it.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

I'm very peculiar looking.

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.

I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.