Strange Quotes
3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors
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Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic…
— Rajneesh
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It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is…
— Phineas Quimby
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The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic…
— David Frum
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The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of…
— Emma Lazarus
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Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in…
— Israel Zangwill
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I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the viewer’s…
— Lori Earley
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A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But…
— Thomas Traherne
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When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if…
— Frieda Lawrence
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The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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" This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and…
— Mike Tyson
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Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a…
— Joel Achenbach
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease,…
— A. C. Benson
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This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above…
— Charlotte Bronte
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This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a…
— Noah Cicero
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Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would…
— Richard Griffiths
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It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more…
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him…
— Khalil Gibran
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Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
— Moliere
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