Peculiar Treasures Quotes & Sayings

Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind? — Ransom Riggs

That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care. — William Pene Du Bois

As you are now so once were we. — James Joyce

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. — Sophie Kinsella

Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding. — Iris Origo

I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character-the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work. — Jose Saramago

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching. — Bob Ley

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there. — Beth Ditto

We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth. — Diane Hendricks

Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond! — Dana Gould

People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country — Sunday Adelaja

I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works. — Wiz Khalifa

To learn that his treasures had been lost months ago, and so far away, was no different from learning of the death, similarly distant in time and geography, of a beloved person. Such a death bears a peculiar imprint of doubt. To be told one day that someone has gone off to the other side of the world, and with whom you expect momentarily to be reunited, has actually been dead for many months, during which you have been going on with your life, unaware of this subtraction that has taken place, makes a mockery of the finality of death. Death is reduced to news. And news is always a little unreal - which is why we bear to take in so much of it. — Susan Sontag

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals. — Bo Bennett

This is golden, Katie thought as they rumbled down the freeway eating fast-food tacos. I love being "us". — Robin Jones Gunn