Strangely Quotes
240 Strangely quotes by 214 unique authors
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Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing.…
— Sitting Bull
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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
— Oscar Wilde
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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
— Flannery O'Connor
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False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
— William E. Simon
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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite…
— Victor Hugo
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are…
— Frank Moore Colby
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It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. ‘There’ was then; ‘here’ is now.
— Sven Birkerts
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I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
— Michael Palin
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People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I…
— Michael Palin
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I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on…
— Albert Brooks
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I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.
— Sandra Oh
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Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear…
— Greg Evigan
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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
— Keith Ablow
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I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
— Donal Logue
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Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelesness,…
— Raymond Burr
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What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground…
— E. V. Lucas
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The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had…
— Gloria Swanson
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if…
— Betty Friedan
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Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
— Unknown Author
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So sweet love seemed that April morn, when first we kissed beside the thorn, so strangely sweet, it was not strange we thought that love…
— Robert Bridges
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I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
— Andree Putman
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And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said…
— Jann Arden
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