Strange Quotes - Page 6

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

I wear what fits Ghostface; I'm not gonna wear anything that makes me look strange.

Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

It's a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you - can you trust Him?

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Painting is a strange business.

Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.

Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.