Peculiar Quotes - Page 5

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

Love is a peculiar thing.

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

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

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

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

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

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

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

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

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

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.

There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.