#peculiar

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #emotion #peculiar #people #provoked

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#chastity #most #peculiar #perhaps #sexual

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ↗

— David Hume

#brain #call #little #peculiar #privilege

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#burning #cookies #explosives #fills #hot

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#been #beings #believe #believing #century

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#beings #commands #fulfill #god #his

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

#bad #create #fool #misery #moods

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is. ↗

— Happy Chandler

#how #matter #much #peculiar #people

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#because #instantly #name #offer #peculiar

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. ↗

— Fred Frith

#ball #costumes #dressed #even #football