#peculiar

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#country #entered #first #friendliness #into

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#arrested #arrested development #degree #development #man

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#fool #forget #his #others #own

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#eternity #find #his #location #meet

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile. ↗

— Robert Plant

#clothing #cracking #ever #had #i

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense? ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#character #character actress #could #does #i

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. ↗

— Georges Seurat

#character #depends #drawing #each #only

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#acts #does #every #fate #his

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#animal #before #body #company #connections

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. ↗

— James Dickey

#deprived #detachment #entitled #feel #feeling