Quotes by Peculiar I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry. A. E. Housman vibrations peculiar thinking Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Abraham Lincoln peculiar ambition men But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes. Ada Lovelace logic peculiar may The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations. Ada Lovelace abstract peculiar numbers In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation. Ada Lovelace space peculiar numbers In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated. Ada Lovelace analysis independent peculiar Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it. Agatha Christie eggs peculiar noise There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. Alan Watts peculiar trying believe 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. Albert Camus peculiar age challenges A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct Aldo Leopold hunting hunters peculiar 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 office peculiar men The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? Alexander Pope merit care peculiar Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, Alexander Pope peculiar earth life Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there. Alice Walker peculiar temptation thinking My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel. Amanda McKittrick Ros peculiar writing feels Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written. Amanda Peet peculiar want way Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce betrayed virtue peculiar SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Ambrose Bierce sacred peculiar giving SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. Ambrose Bierce peculiar greek kindness 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 inferiority peculiar men 1234567891011»