Strange Quotes - Page 32

I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random strangers any given day - who's in these streets that day?

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

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.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I come from a pretty strange family.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.