Quotes by Peculiar The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered. Jose Ortega y Gasset horizon peculiar interesting The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. Josiah Strong peculiar cities civilization No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil. Joshua Reynolds copying peculiar art 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 make-sense peculiar thinking We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel peculiar would-be hands It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel mankind peculiar literature All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny. Katherine Neville force study peculiar The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner. Kedar Joshi peculiar profound order Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire. Kenneth Branagh peculiar dark sometimes The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof. L. Harrison Matthews theory-of-evolution peculiar special If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the peculiar divergence of man ... Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language. Leonard Bloomfield long-ago peculiar men The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin. Lewis H. Lapham extravagance peculiar flesh I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. Louise Brown normal-and-abnormal abnormal peculiar Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. Luc de Clapiers peculiar Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness. Lucy Maud Montgomery sweetness peculiar spring When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. Luc de Clapiers conviction peculiar truth People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne. Lucy Maud Montgomery different peculiar people In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. Lytton Strachey triumph peculiar literature 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 accepting peculiar waiting 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 peculiar want «4567891011121314»
