Strange Quotes - Page 23

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

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 to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.