Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill
His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent,… — Max Born
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Unknown Author
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell… — Plato
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight… — Tom Waits
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality. — Paula Sharp
There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world. — Paulo Coelho
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. — Seamus Heaney
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see… — Ciaran Carson
I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a… — Jim Butcher
Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I… — Eddy Merckx
I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns. — Frank Gorshin
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange. — Jack White
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel! — Erich Maria Remarque
That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work… — Jimmy Page
I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and… — Edith Piaf
It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to… — Russell Banks
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. — Chuck Jones
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that… — Alice Hamilton
People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would… — John Henry Newman
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church… — John Henry Newman

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