#peculiar

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#culture #degree #find #hatred #lowest

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#been #colored #denied #education #feel

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. ↗

— John Hurt

#anything #cent #comes #exam #film

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

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

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

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#chance #clear #concrete #course #got

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#been #body #extremely #human #human body

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#greatly #his #increasing #main #man

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#brought #everything #exists #great #kindergarten