Strange Quotes

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We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of… — Henry David Thoreau
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. — D. H. Lawrence
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive… — Frederick Douglass
I think that I've had a very strange life. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now,… — Hal Borland
Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him. — Lilias Trotter
It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how… — Virginia Woolf
Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds. — Walter Scott
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something. — Anne Tyler
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do. — Glenn Close
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours… — Agnes Repplier
There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and… — John Ruskin
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would… — John Ruskin
It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet… — Juliana Hatfield
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine… — Michel de Montaigne
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of… — Aldous Huxley
If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or… — Anais Nin
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that… — Charles Caleb Colton
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… — J. G. Ballard

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