Strange Quotes - page 2

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. (Karl Marx)
So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. View quote
Robert Bridges
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. View quote
May Sarton
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. View quote
George Eliot
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . (Henry James)
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. View quote
Paul Erdős
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. View quote
Karen Blixen
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. View quote
Peter Medawar
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. View quote
Arthur Eddington
When the wine goes in, strange things come out. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Life is a b movie. It's stupid and it's strange, A directionless story, And the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, Sometimes there's some poetry, If you turn your back long enough, And let it happen naturally. View quote
Ani DiFranco
How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. View quote
Robert Browning
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. View quote
Betty Friedan
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. (Johan Huizinga)
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. View quote
Freya Stark
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. View quote
David Brin
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. View quote
Johnny Depp