Quotes about Peculiar

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

The Dutch do have a slightly odd sense of humour.

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

She was keeping it in a cedar box with some other penises she'd stolen; she was feeding them on grains of wheat. That's the usual method of tending penises.

A large number merely strange

A large number merely strange

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

This, together with his hanging his coat on the floor on one side of a chair, and his vest on the floor on the other side, and piling his pants on the floor just in front of the same chair, and then contemplating the general result with superstitious awe, and finally pronouncing it "too many for him" and going to bed with his boots on, led us to fear that something he had eaten had not agreed with him.