Peculiar Quotes - Page 2

• So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

  Ransom Riggs

  Mother, One Day, World

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

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• Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sight, Smell, Odor

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.515

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• Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

  James A. Garfield

  Power, Rocks, Two

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

  Evan Esar

  Impossible, Ifs

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• Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Age, Kind

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.593, Princeton University Press

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• It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Errors, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

  Carly Simon

  Thinking, Trying, Particular

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• He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Boys, Giving

  Louisa May Alcott, Barbara Steadman (1997). “Little Women Coloring Book”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Betrayed, Virtue, Fidelity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

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• Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Character, Autumn

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• Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Form

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Hermann und Dorothea, Canto V, line 69, 1922.

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• You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Track, Bent, Born

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1422, Delphi Classics

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• Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.100, Ravenio Books

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• It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Duty

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (22), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Mediocrity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.96

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• I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Morning, Ocean

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• Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.

  Isaac Asimov

  God, Science, Years

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• To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

  M. C. Escher

  Waiting, Accepting, Wiser

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• Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

  Voltaire

  Inspiration, Ears, Spirit

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• I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

  Sophia Loren

  Kindness, Real, Grief

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• It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she should have no privileges except those received through her son. It seems illogical that the God Principle of the Universe, in its infinite wisdom, should endanger the existence of the Race by making the Mother of it the weak, cringing underling of her husband.

  Hilton Hotema

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Hilton Hotema (1998). “Secret of Regeneration”, p.276, Health Research Books

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• Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, People, Rude

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.67, University of Illinois Press

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• Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Happiness, Beautiful, Summer

  Hans Christian Andersen (2013). “The True Story of My Life”, p.143, Lulu Press, Inc

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• War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

  Errol Morris

  War, Fate, Impossible Things

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• There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Drinking, Men, Ties

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