Peculiar Quotes

Love is a peculiar thing. (Georg Büchner)
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. View quote
Hans Blix
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...... View quote
Klaus Mann
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. View quote
Diane Arbus
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. View quote
John Updike
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. View quote
Cicero
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. (Martin Buber)
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. View quote
Immanuel Kant
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. View quote
Sebastian Barry
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. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. View quote
Christopher Lasch
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. View quote
Carl Schurz
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. View quote
Samuel Alexander
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track - the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity. View quote
John Updike
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way. (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi)
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry. View quote
Francis Parkman
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. View quote
M. C. Escher
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. View quote
Alfred Adler
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois