Top 25 Peculiar Place Quotes
#1. The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
Tim Allen
#2. Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
John Dryden
#3. I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
Ziad Doueiri
#4. 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
#5. peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring of courage from which those children would eventually be able to draw to sustain the confessions and direct conversations of adult life. Rabih
Alain De Botton
#6. The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
M. Night Shyamalan
#7. Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
#8. The punishment for acting helpless is to find oneself at the mercy of others.
Marty Rubin
#9. Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Mira Nair
#10. It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.
William Eggleston
#11. There is funny ha-ha, and there is funny peculiar, and beneath a trapdoor in Kevin's mind is a place where the two blur together, the place of jokes, churning so furiously frequently, when it kicks up a line, he has no idea what it will turn out to be.
Kevin Brockmeier
#12. Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
Nelson Rodrigues
#14. I live in a peculiar world," she said, "in a place where reality ends and a fiction begins. Maybe that's why I love you.
Michael Faudet
#15. We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
Jose Saramago
#16. When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#17. Our fellow-citizens, as they now realized, had never thought that our little town might be a place particularly chosen as one where rats die in the sun and concierges perish from peculiar illnesses.
Albert Camus
#19. You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you're the Master, you're the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#20. Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience.
Sean Pertwee
#21. Du Bois sighed theatrically. "It's as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins.
Gavin G. Smith
#22. The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
Chris Riddell
#23. But in the course of thirty years a great change took place, and the North refused to perpetuate what had become the "peculiar institution" of the South, especially as it gave the South a species of aristocratic preponderance.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#24. Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?" "That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins." "Magic penguins?" "Don't ask.
Rick Riordan
#25. What's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
Mae West
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