Curious Quotes

911 Curious quotes by 707 unique authors

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water… — Nhat Hanh
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and… — Thomas Wolfe
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.] — Agatha Christie
It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually… — Daniel Handler
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great… — John Ruskin
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on… — Walt Whitman
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no… — Daniel Quinn
That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what… — Richard Bach
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously — Oscar Wilde
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is… — Susan Sontag
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should… — Charles Dickens
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. — Daniel Gilbert
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves. — John Steinbeck
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going… — Alice Munro
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it… — Simone de Beauvoir
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life… — Philip Pullman
After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a… — Susanna Clarke
They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. — C.S. Lewis
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they… — Randall Munroe
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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