People say of me, ‘She’s peculiar.’ They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.
– Mary MacLane
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- It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively. – Mary MacLane
- A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people – Sunday Adelaja
- There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well. – Morton Shaevitz
- I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity – Nikolai Gogol
- The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people. – Father Brown
- There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real. – Colleen Chen
- One of the bridges between sexes, to be sure, is sex. But men, too often feeling deficient in discourse, place too much emphasis on intercourse. – James Hollis
- If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point. – Sherry Argov
- If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources. – Sunday Adelaja
- [Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ. – Billy Graham
- Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship. – Kim John Payne
- Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression. – Criss Jami
- People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,’ said Anne. – LM Montgomery
- Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them. – TS Eliot
- When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
- Will the stars say yes? Will the moon say yes? Will the sky say yes? Who will say yes when I will ask you.. will you marry me? – Dr Karan M Pai
- When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else. – Christian D Larson
- While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They’re peculiar that way. – Cassandra Clare
- We are peculiar people called to fulfill a great mission. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- …and all the people said ‘What a shame that he’s dead, but wasn’t he a most peculiar man? – Paul Simon
- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
- I can’t understand God and I can’t understand myself, so there’s no chance in hell that I’m going to understand you! – Anthony T Hincks
- To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people – Niccol Machiavelli
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- But destiny is a very peculiar thing, with a complex timing that is impossible to comprehend. – Diana Lanham
- By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you’ve done. Move out! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. – PT Barnum
- She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber. – Sherry Turkle
- A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence. – Donald Kingsbury
- God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment – Sunday Adelaja