Peculiar Quotes - Page 13

• Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

  Angelina Grimke

  Men, Inferiority, Privilege

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• 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.

  Gustav Mahler

  Scare, Helping, Help Me

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• We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Moving, Holiness

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• Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Brother, Heart, Opportunity

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.86

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• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, New Year, Morning

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.26, Prestwick House Inc

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• 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.

  Simon Newcomb

  Real, Sensual, Navy

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

  Stanley Elkin

  Holiday, Men, Eating Alone

  Stanley Elkin (1967). “Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers”

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• The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

  Frank Rich

  New York, World, Broadway

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• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

  Washington Allston

  Lying, Half, Kind

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Emotion, Provoking

  Clive Bell (1987). “Art”

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• Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Men, Animal, Psychics

  ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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• C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Successful, Unity, Groups

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  World, Strange, Jazz

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• 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.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Perfect, Cooking, Brain

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.49

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• 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.

  Klaus Mann

  Memories, Powerful, Reality

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• 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.

  Imre Lakatos

  Latin, Men, Names

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• To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Soul, Movement, Students

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)”, p.257, The Overlook Press

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• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Doors, Numbers

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• The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

  Charlotte Mason

  Lying, Ideas, Imagination

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Powerful, Grateful, Perfect

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

  Rick Bayan

  Unique, Odds, Priorities

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• 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.

  Joseph Hume

  Protection, Burden, Relieved

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• Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

  David Pilbeam

  Paleontology, Study, Biology

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• Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Stress, Math, Perfect

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

  Joel Hodgson

  Brother, Turtles, Names

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