Strange Quotes - Page 34

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

…for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.

I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child.

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange.

I really like Twitter. It's a conversation and it reminds me of having stranger conversations on the train. I'm a New Yorker. I'm used to bumping into strangers, acknowledging them, them acknowledging me, even if it's just with an eyebrow lift.

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

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too high-minded about that.

When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.

"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.