Peculiar Quotes

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Nature, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1897). “Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement”

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• Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Paper, Notable, Constitution

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

  George S. Clason

  Luck, Habit, Depends

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• 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

  Cancer, Want, Nasty

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• 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

  Spring, Quality, Fields

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• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ambition, Men, Fellow Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I live and love in God's peculiar light.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Religious, Art

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• Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

  Diane Arbus

  Love, Witty, Understanding

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• The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Location, Problem, Eternity

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.59, Macmillan

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• What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Brain, Agitation

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works”, p.438

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• Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Ridiculous

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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

  Writing, Elements, Faults

  The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.

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• Love is a peculiar thing.

  Georg Buchner

  Love Is

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1838.

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

  Ransom Riggs

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.17, Quirk Books

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• 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

  Thinking, Make Sense, Refuse

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• My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar cross, lest by any means they exalt themselves, and fall into the snare of the devil.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fall, Mean, Secret

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.198, Zondervan

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• Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Travel, Climbing, Dancing

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• 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

  Successful, Three, Analysis

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• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

  Ransom Riggs

  Ordinary, Would Be, Accepting

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

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

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Goes On, World, Matter

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 04, 2013

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• 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

  Truth, Believe, Levels

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Christopher Ralling (1967). “Muggeridge through the microphone: B.B.C. radio and television”, Not Avail

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• 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

  Farewell, Atlanta, Imagination

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

  John Updike

  Government, Madness, Permit

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 24, 2014

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• The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

  David Hume

  Talking, Mind, Identity

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• Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

  Charles Kennedy

  Courage, Fear, Bravery

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