Peculiar Quotes - Page 18

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

George R. R. Martin

Dream, Children, Character

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There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

Alan Watts

Believe, Trying, Republic

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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.

William Carey

Christian, Servant Of God, Ministers

William Carey (1792). “An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,”, p.72

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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.

S. Parkes Cadman

Animal, Clothes, Affection

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From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge. We can seek out those memorable moments that are frequently hidden by the pain and agony. We can find peace in extending ourselves to others, using our own experiences to provide hope and comfort. And we can always remember with great solemnity and gratitude Him who suffered most to make it all right for us. And by so doing we can be strengthened to bear our burdens in peace. And then, the 'works of God' might be manifest.

Richard C. Edgley

Gratitude, Pain, Memorable

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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

William James

Self, Mind, Social

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Johannes Peter Muller

Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

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The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Aristotle

Character, Government, Democracy

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

Vincent Van Gogh

God, Loneliness, Mind

Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Girl, Dolls, Answers

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We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.

Jim Thompson

Mean, Kids, Fighting

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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

Eudora Welty

Reading, Writing, Expression

Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

Emily Bronte

People, Hatred, Soul

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.377, Penguin

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[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct summation of the totality of all experimental and observational evidence.

M. King Hubbert

Science, Law, Principles

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To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

Tobey Maguire

Real, Thinking, Ideas

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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.

Jane Austen

Disappointment, Successful, Promise

Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.143, PDFreeBooks.org

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Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

Hayden Carruth

Thinking, Giving, Mind

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In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.

Kabir Sehgal

Practice, Giving, Trying

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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.

Hans Blix

Zero, Military, Weapons

"Iraq Invasion Violated International Law: Blix". www.smh.com.au. August 07, 2003.

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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Barbara Amiel

Ideas, Confusion, Progress

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My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

Joan Fontaine

Children, My Sister, Young

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

Rene Dubos

Civilization, Community, Groups

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To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Theodor Adorno

Life, Hate, Illness

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.78, Verso

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The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

Tertullian

Inspirational, Prayer, Practice

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The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

John Marshall

Wise, May, Constitution

John Marshall (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, March 1814-December 1819”, The University of North Carolina Press

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