Strange Quotes - page 9

On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw. (Fareed Zakaria)
Let us imagine that the aboriginal-original human specimen was one of two brother apes, A and B; they were alike in every respect; both were animal space-binders; but something strange happened to B; he became the first time-binder, a human. ... He had thus a new faculty, he belonged to a new dimension; but, of course, he did not realize it; and because he had this new capacity he was able to analyze his brother "A"; he observed "A is my brother; he is an animal; but he is my brother; therefore, I AM AN ANIMAL." This fatal first conclusion, reached by false analogy, by neglecting a fact, has been the chief source of human woe for half a million years and it still survives. ... He [then] said to himself, "If I am an animal there is also in me something higher, a spark of some thing supernatural." View quote
Alfred Korzybski
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary. View quote
George Orwell
In that instant when I had seen the blazing star that was the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated. View quote
Albert Camus
In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time. View quote
Albert Camus
What strange creatures brothers are! View quote
Jane Austen
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. View quote
Andrew Marvell
Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all. View quote
William Congreve
Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject. View quote
George MacDonald
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene ... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. (Daniel Pipes)
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation. View quote
Kenneth Clark
It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty. View quote
Francis Bacon
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual – the Orientals did that. View quote
Jackson Pollock
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. View quote
T. S. Eliot
What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts. View quote
Lewis Carroll
I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours. View quote
Lewis Carroll
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. View quote
John Berger
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. View quote
William Faulkner
Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content. View quote
Bob Dylan
People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed. (Bob Dylan)
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? View quote
John Steinbeck
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself, how it's strange that some rooms are like cages, Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf and he idoly thumbs through the pages. Some have died, some have fled from themselves, or struggled from here to get there. Sonny wonders beyond his interior walls, runs his hands through his thining brown hair. View quote
Paul Simon
Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen. View quote
Heath Ledger
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. View quote
Ray Bradbury