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I live and love in God's peculiar light. -- Michelangelo
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. -- Diane Arbus
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression. -- Criss Jami
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. -- Guru Nanak
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith. -- Debra Dean
What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art. -- Claire Cameron
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. -- James Weldon Johnson
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Love is a peculiar thing. -- Georg Buchner
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. -- Charles Kennedy
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. -- Abraham Lincoln
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. -- John Updike
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. -- David Hume
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. -- Orison Swett Marden
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. -- Judy Garland
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. -- Thomas Jefferson
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. -- Jack Kerouac
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. -- Neil Gaiman
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. -- Bette Davis
If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way. -- Wim Wenders
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? -- Maggie Smith
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual. -- James Hollis
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them. -- Alexander Hamilton
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. -- Ambrose Bierce
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. -- Philip Guston
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? -- Nicholson Baker
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness. -- Laurie Graham
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. -- Florence Nightingale
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. -- Alfred Adler
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. -- Adam Smith
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. -- Tim Allen
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
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. -- John Jay Chapman
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. -- Huston Smith
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. -- Samuel Alexander
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. -- P. T. Barnum
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. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing. -- Vikram Seth
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. -- Tom Wolfe
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. -- Terry Eagleton
I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities. -- Ziad Doueiri
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. -- Brian Eno
Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous. -- Thomas Ligotti
God is gracious to some very peculiar people. -- Wallace Stevens
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying. -- Chuck Klosterman
Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. -- George D. Prentice
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't have to be peculiar to find God, -- Evelyn Underhill
We are peculiar people called to fulfill a great mission. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. -- William Shakespeare
The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes. -- Michael Parenti
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -- George Eliot
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. -- Gertrude Stein
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. -- Homer Hulbert
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. -- Remy de Gourmont
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. -- Mason Cooley
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts. -- James Patterson
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. -- Charles Darwin
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. -- George Haven Putnam
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent. -- Eileen Wilks
I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar"... -- Barack Obama
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial. -- Ronald Ross
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. -- Mira Nair
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. -- Djuna Barnes
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. -- Marcus Aurelius
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. -- Louise Brown
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. -- Dean Koontz
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays -- Stanley Elkin
Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves. -- John N. Gray
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom. -- Ted Cruz
Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves. -- John N. Gray
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. -- Ambrose Bierce
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. -- Alexander Pope
Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience. -- Sean Pertwee
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. -- G. Stanley Hall
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. -- David Gerrold
Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves. -- August Bier
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. -- Michael Medved
People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing. -- Marsha Mason
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. -- Fay Weldon
Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it. -- George S. Clason
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation. -- Samuel Johnson
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. -- Colum McCann
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. -- Samuel Smiles
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds. -- Edgar Wilson Nye
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. -- Colin McEnroe
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. -- Brian Eno
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. -- Luc de Clapiers
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. -- Clive Bell
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. -- William Cowper
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs. -- Anne Tyler
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. -- Alexander Pope
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together. -- Alice Thomas Ellis
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have. -- Paul Bettany
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. -- John Stuart Mill
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting. -- James Rosenquist
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. -- George Mikes
We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar. -- James E. Faust
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. -- Georges Seurat
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. -- Alexander Pope
Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. -- John Milton
Debt . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. -- Margaret Atwood
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise. -- Sallie Tisdale
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. -- Thorstein Veblen
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions. -- Carl von Clausewitz
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. -- Marshall McLuhan
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. -- Carly Simon
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. -- James Madison
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues. -- Samuel West
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. -- Ezra Stiles
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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