Peculiar Quotes - Page 7

• Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

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• But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Suicide, Years, Would Be

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.38, Vintage

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• Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

  Edward Said

  Hurt, Memories, Nice

  Edward W. Said (2013). “Out Of Place: A Memoir”, p.1929, Granta Books

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• Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

  Isaac Asimov

  Art, Data, Work Out

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.

  Shane Claiborne

  Children, Couple, Teaching

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Marissa Meyer

  Past, Doctors, Let Me

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

  Chuck Klosterman

  Trying, Remember, Remember When

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• It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Gold, Captains, Lord

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• Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Pain, Sadness, Sorrow

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

  James Lee Burke

  Morning, Men, Mirrors

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Tourists, Language

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.269, Random House

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• It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Ridiculous, Wells

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• It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, Cat, Maps

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.10, Pottermore

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• I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

  Harper Lee

  People, Conclusion

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Religious, Race, Law

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

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• It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold. His body pinned Clary's to the wall. His hands slid down along her body and reached the end of her dress, drawing it up along her legs. "What are you doing?" She whispered. "Jace?" He looked at her. The peculiar light in the club turned his eyes an array of fractured colors. His smile was wicked. "You can tell me to stop whenever you want," he said. "But you won't.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Eye, Dark

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Beautiful Women, Temptation

  "Middlemarch".

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• You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Emotional, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Teaching, Government, People

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

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• Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Earth, Nutrition

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 63

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• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Mean, Roles

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

  Mark Twain

  Dance, Party, Butterfly

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• Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.

  Jan Struther

  Happiness, Holiday, One Day

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.3, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.

  Tom Peters

  Motivational, Teamwork, Spiritual

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• A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Writing, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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