Strange Quotes - page 90

My revenge is living well... I want to go get on a freighter and go through the Panama Canal. All I've ever wanted in my life is freedom and access. I like being backstage and watching the weird, human drama of all of these strange personalities that politics attracts. (Mike Murphy (political consultant))
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. View quote
Clive Bell
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. View quote
William Shakespeare
Murder most foul, as in the best it it But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. View quote
William Shakespeare
I praise God for you, sir your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy. View quote
William Shakespeare
I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage. View quote
William Shakespeare
I'll run just once - and just for the hell of it. I'll select the most qualified vice-presidential candidate possible just in case something strange happens and I win. After I'm sworn in I hang around long enough to sign an Executive Order requiring all airport screeners to have graduated in the top one-half of their high school class. Then I'll free all non-violent drug offenders, take a few spins on Air Force One and get to know the interns. Then I'll resign and let the vice president take the controls. View quote
Neal Boortz
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. View quote
Clark Gable
Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd. View quote
John Armstrong
Jealousy we understood and thought natural...but envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us. (Toni Morrison)
I quite fixedly believe the Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, that face on other worlds than ours. View quote
James Branch Cabell
Stranger in a strange country. View quote
Sophocles
I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain. View quote
Mark Twain
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us. View quote
Mark Twain
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought. View quote
Mark Twain
All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. View quote
Mark Twain
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. View quote
John Polkinghorne
Wilhelm Halbfass, the late Indologist at the University of Pennsylvania, took such ridiculous statements into strange, speculative areas and wrote: Would it not be equally permissible to identify this underlying structure as 'deep Nazism' or 'deep Mimamsa'? And what will prevent us from calling Kumarila and William Jones 'deep Nazis' and Adolf Hitler a 'deep Mimamsaka? (Rajiv Malhotra)
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. View quote
Gene Kelly
In Calcutta, when the organizers saw me, they insisted that I first sing in a private sitting a night before my concert was scheduled. I couldn't understand why they couldn't wait till the next day. Nisar Husain Khan Saheb took me aside and explained that the organizers had doubts about what I, a frail girl at that time, was capable of! I sang and was greatly appreciated. In fact, I was awarded a gold medal by the Maharaja of Tripura. At the same concert, I kept remembering my mother who was no more, and just then felt a hand on my shoulder. When I turned around, I saw K. L. Saigal, who said, 'bahut surila' (very melodious). I was happy but then very upset that a strange man should touch me! View quote
Gangubai Hangal
traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. View quote
Ibn Battuta
History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths. View quote
Dan Brown