Best 947 quotes in «strange quotes» category

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

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 unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

At this point, I don't care much where I live. I don't feel as attached to Russia's native woods as I was once. I used to dearly love Moscow, even though I wasn't born there; but now, it's changed so much that it's a strange city for me. I had a bond with my friends, but most of them are gone; I haven't made new ones, and the ones that I do have are mostly in Germany and in America.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

Being in love is a very strange thing.

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

Being like stranded without a label in the middle of tour was very strange. On the other hand it made us move instantly. I mean, I didn't wallow. I was like, "Alright, who can we email? Let's just start putting stuff out." I felt like we were playing really well and it was at least worth a shot.

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

Changmin teases me so much...it's to the point that it feels strange when he doesn't.

Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?” “I was imagining it was Evor.” “Strange, they do not greatly resemble each other.” “I have a good imagination.” “In that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.