Strange Quotes

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Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and… — Lyman Abbott
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when… — Dave Lombardo
Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth. — Robert H. Shaffer
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much… — John Quiggin
Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss… — St. Catherine of Siena
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange! — Ellen Raskin
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to… — Herbert Read
This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and… — Unknown Author
They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next. — Lauren Willig
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. — Tom T. Hall
It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely… — Ken Wilber
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me. — Edith Cavell
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It… — Gaston Bachelard
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks… — Robert Browning
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow… — John Dryden
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
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting… — Jo Boaler
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find… — Jessye Norman
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming… — D. H. Lawrence
The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite… — Boyd K. Packer
Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to… — William Shakespeare
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. — John Milton

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