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peculiar life-is
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. Djuna Barnes
peculiar unusual
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride. James Lovegrove
peculiar produces
Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years. Howard Bloom
peculiar sometimes habit
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. David Gerrold
peculiar virtue
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
peculiar poet work written
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.' Helen Vendler
peculiar harmony invention
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it. Henri Matisse
peculiar providence form
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
peculiar form
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
mankind humankind knows
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. Bertrand Russell
mankind
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd. Benjamin Franklin
mankind opposition
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
mankind
Science is the only religion of mankind. Arthur C. Clarke
mankind shall
When there's only one race, and that's mankind, we shall be free. Garth Brooks
mankind draws
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind. Elias Canetti
mankind consolation solemn
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
mankind interest consulting
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned. Baruch Spinoza