Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something. — Ben Jonson
A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope… — Robin Williams
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand. — Herman Wouk
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… — Charles Horton Cooley
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at… — Simone Weil
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind. — Charles Baudelaire
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways… — Lloyd Alexander
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the… — Bernard Malamud
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece. — Clarence Day
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework… — Betty Friedan
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. — Hannah Arendt
Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters. — Phyllis McGinley
Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for… — Christopher Fry
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that… — Brian Eno
It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We… — Guy Finley
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange,… — Carlos Fuentes
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the… — Alfred Kazin
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that… — Roy Lichtenstein
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time. — Irving Stone
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother… — Wang Wei
I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but… — Maureen McCormick

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