Perculiar Quotes & Sayings

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. — Lester R. Brown

People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but she had learned that choice was sometimes illusory. — Nicholas Sparks

You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart. — Ma Jaya

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? — Theodore Roethke

Now let's make nice with the government before they try to pin us for tax evasion. — J.J. McAvoy

Scars are the gift of a daring life worth living. — Debasish Mridha

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive. — Alice Waters

Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don't mean escape. You don't escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. Mon Dieu, I'm glad I have them. When I find myself in a situation in which I'd rather not be - because of the perculiar circumstances of my life - I have this outlet. You may think me tres superieure but I'm not really, I am just what I am and live the way I like. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that. — Donna Tartt

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part. — Matt Kemp

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. — Julie Andrews

We won't let you down. We will work together and successfully complete this mission. — Liu Yang

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure. — Gina McCarthy

Life is perphas after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only to discover that gravity or stasis or love or dismay or illness or some other force suddenly tows us in an unexpected direction. We wake up to find that we have changed abruptly in a way that is perculiar and inexplicable. We are constanly adjusting, making it up, feeling our way forward, figuring out how to be and where to go next. We work it out, how to be happy, but sooner or later comes a change-sometimes something small, sometimes everything at once- and we have to start over again, feeling our way back to a provisional state of contentment. — Anne Giardini

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general. — Vladimir Lenin

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex
they should draw the line at goats. — Elton John