Strange Quotes - page 87

On the face of it there is something rather strange about human psychology. Human beings live in a state of mind called sanity, on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure whether the space around them is infinite or not, either way it is unthinkable. If they think about time, they find that it is inconceivable that it had a beginning. It is also inconceivable that it did not have a beginning. Thoughts of this kind are not disturbing to sanity, which is obviously a remarkable phenomenon that deserves more recognition. (Celia Green)
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. View quote
Edward Young
And that is all the Pope is saying to another human being. God made you the way you are, and loves you for it, and wants you to be happy as yourself. How much agony and pain has there been across so many centuries because we could not open our hearts to this truth? It is so strange to me how so many nonbelievers can see in this Pope's interaction with others the spirit of Jesus, and how so many of the most devout seem terrified by it. View quote
Andrew Sullivan
One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: 'This is really written in English, but it has been coded in some strange symbols. I will now proceed to decode. View quote
Warren Weaver
Why? Because pride is a strange thing, and because generosity deserves generosity in return. But mostly because it felt like the right thing to do, and that is reason enough. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
The strange thing about the theory of evolution is that everyone thinks he understands it. But we do not. A biosphere, or an econosphere, self-consistently coconstructs itself according to principles we do not yet fathom. View quote
Stuart Kauffman
Considering how readily musicologists criticize one another – witness the merciless footnotes (and reviews) of so many books and articles – the innocent bystander must find it strange that they remain unwilling to venture judgments about the quality of the music around which they work...But it is hard to see what can be the purpose of musicology if not to advise people on what to hear and how to hear it. Separating out the good, the bad and the indifferent, and helping listeners enjoy the best, is surely the least we can offer society in return for our keep. View quote
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Money, having freed itself from the physical universe, has become number itself, and finance a strange form of mathematical alchemy. View quote
David Orrell
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria. View quote
Bill Gates
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature. View quote
Chang-rae Lee
[he] was handsome. Just the sight of him stirred strange longings in me. (Alice Borchardt)
I was angry with you about him, furious that he so much as set eyes on you. I would rather kill you than see you lie in his arms.” "is that love then? A thing that leads to murder?” "I don't know. In all honesty, I don't know. You're mine. What's mine I keep, I rule, and give my body over to defend. I offer you my honor, and my life. That's not an easy thing. Its within your power to break my pride, and take that life, insignificant though it is.” "you put it very simply.” "its not. Such a gift rouses strange passions, fears of treachery, and deep distrust. I'm not immune to them.” "no one told me it would be like this. Perhaps it won't go into words, what I feel for you. Its not desire, yet I love your touch, the warm softness of your flesh against mine.”. View quote
Alice Borchardt
Strange thoughts come to the man alone; 'Tis then, if ever, he talks with God, And views himself as a single clod In the soil of life where the souls are grown. 'Tis then he questions the why and where, The start and end of his years and days, And what is blame and what is praise, And what is ugly and what is fair. View quote
Edgar Guest
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. View quote
Victor Hugo
I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. View quote
David Bowie
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. View quote
Rupert Murdoch
You may think this all strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan. View quote
Arthur Machen
I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago. View quote
Theo Jansen
Strange reading? It is meant to be. The world is full of romantic, macabre, improbable things which would never do in works of fiction. View quote
Robertson Davies
Did you sleep well last night?” asked Glorian. "Yes, I suppose,” said Dore, "although I was trouble by a strange dream.” "Oh? Perhaps it was some sort of omen. Tell me of it.” "Certainly,” said Dore. "I dreamed of a domino.” "Just one?” "Yes, just the one. All night. No people or sounds in the dream, just the domino. The five-three.” "Wonderful!” cried Glorian. "The five-three is a lucky little devil. It presages victory after hardships. It confirms your inner ambition, but counsels you to avoid extremes, to temper pleasure with practicality. Advances in music, art, and drama are indicated. Rely on good manners and good taste. The five-three is a domino of hope and good news. View quote
George Alec Effinger
A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults. (G. M. Young)
My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me. View quote
Garth Greenwell
There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life. View quote
Louis Sachar
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts. View quote
Wim Wenders
The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. View quote
Rachel Maddow