Top Peculiar Quotes
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
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
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
George Haven Putnam
Remy de Gourmont 
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Nicholson Baker 
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I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
Billy Sunday
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
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C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.
Dennis Ritchie
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Josiah Strong
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith
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The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy
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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Remy de Gourmont
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