Quotes About Peculiar

Salvation is not something simply admirable; it possesses us and causes us to be a peculiar people. It is not simply understood; it is felt and experienced. When a person acknowledges his sins, confesses them, and trusts the death and resurrection of Christ to save him, he is saved. We do not receive a plan; we receive a person. We do not receive truth; we receive the One who said, "I am…the truth" (John 14:6).

Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.

On raconte qu'elle est très bizarre. - Alors elle est sûrement très intéressante, [...], les gens bizarres le sont toujours, peu importe ce qu'ils sont ou ne sont pas d'autre.

You don't see a fish in a chair often.

out·li·er -,l ( )r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample

it seemed to me exceedingly peculiar that a man should love flowers as well as opium - and yet I see now that there is no contradiction in this, for are they not perhaps both a means to a kind of intoxication ? Could it not even be said that one might lead inevitably to the other ?

neither gay nor straight, just odd

weirdo n. (pl. weirdos) INFORMAL a person whose dress or behaviour seems strange or eccentric.

Taken out of context, I must seem so strange

Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.

His fame is great; and it will, we have no doubt, be lasting; but it is fame of a peculiar kind, and indeed marvellously resembles infamy. We remember no other case in which the world has made so great a distinction between a book and its author. In general, the book and the author are considered as one. To admire the book is to admire the author. The case of Boswell is an exception, we think the only exception, to this rule.

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'. Get stuffed, Bovril said, then giggled. And it insults people, Telsa said. How peculiar.

As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

it is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the   Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.

It was like finding oneself under the scrutiny of a stuffed bird. His

beard, his profile peculiarly flattened, as though there were not quite enough of him to fully occupy three dimensions.

If the constants of Nature are slowly changing then we could be on a one-way slide to extinction. We have learnt that our existence exploits many peculiar coincidences between the values of different constants of Nature, and that the observed values of the constants fall within some very narrow windows of opportunity for the existence of life.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

Ingen är normal.

I'm very aware that you lead a very peculiar existence as a professional footballer, being flown everywhere first-class and never having to queue up for anything. Of course, that's attractive, but if you're not careful, you end up living in a world where nothing is really real.

I don't carry off 'quirky.'