How Strange Quotes
99 quotes by 91 authors
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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the…
— Richard Burton
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How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will…
— Steven Weinberg
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Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator,…
— Genesis P-Orridge
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It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.
— Selma Lagerlöf
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How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never…
— Elizabeth Enright
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.
— John Archibald Wheeler
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it…
— Louis Sullivan
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My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But…
— Richard Rohr
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How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
— Moon Unit Zappa
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How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling,…
— Edward Abbey
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.
— M. Scott Peck
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How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt…
— Michel Onfray
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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