Peculiar Quotes - Page 15

• Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Office, Looks

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.109, Coventry House Publishing

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• I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

  John McGahern

  Mean, Thinking, Catholic

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• I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

  Claire Messud

  Pennies, Currency, Pedestrians

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Sep 07, 2014

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• What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, One Direction

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.61, Heron Dance Press

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• Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest

  Helen Mirren

  Ambition, Thinking, Self

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• The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

  George S. Patton

  Believe, Army, Done

  Letter to Frederick Ayers on May 05, 1943. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book by Martin Blumenson, p. 242, 1996.

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• Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Exercise, Autumn

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Being Yourself, Believe, Being Single

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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• Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious, Relief, Charity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

  Edith Wharton

  Rain, Character, Garden

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• That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Criminals, Faults

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• If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

  James Madison

  Religious, Rights, Perfect

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.179

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• It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

  James Agee

  Photography, Travel, Lying

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.

  Gerd Sommerhoff

  Lying, Brain, Enquiry

  Gerd Sommerhoff (1974). “Logic of the living brain”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Kissing, Kiss Me, Firsts

  "Back from the Wilderness ... Miss Cora Munro". Mohican Press Interview, 2005.

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• It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

  Max Scheler

  Evil, Criticism, Desire

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

  Steven Morrissey

  New York, Memorable, People

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

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• Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Spring, Character, Color

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• A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

  Kingsley Amis

  Wine, Organization, Details

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• We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

  Herman Melville

  Israel, People, Democracy

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.151

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• And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.

  Upton Sinclair

  Science, Men, Law

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• There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

  Homer Hulbert

  Extinction, Pathos, Nations

  Homer Bezaleel Hulbert (1906). “The Passing of Korea”

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• A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

  William Carey

  Christian, Servant Of God, Ministers

  William Carey (1792). “An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,”, p.72

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