Strange Quotes - Page 12

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

I am infinitely strange to myself.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

How strange it is to be anything at all.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

We live in a strange bubble.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

Stranger in a strange country.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.