Strange Quotes

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
Billy Graham

Around, Bit, Groups

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Gift, Highest, Intellect

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Men, Small

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim Carrey

Mean, Year, Alive

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig

Person, Two, Friends

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson

Nature, Knock, Intrude

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

Yourself, Laugh, Doubt

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

History, Moving, Past

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth, Stranger, Fiction

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Ayrton Senna

Money, Business, Full

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward

Love, Peace, Hope

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

Power, Self, Liberty

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman

Freedom, Free, Stranger

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
James Russell Lowell

Life, Change, End

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Doug Coupland

Family, History, Knowledge

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron

Woman, Stranger

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes

Nothing, Said, Another

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Everything, Honest

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth, Stranger, Fiction

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Saying, Country, Liberty

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Horace

Travel, Through, Before

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes

Cannot, Said, Another

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses

Hope, History, Today

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Muhammad Yunus

Change, Greatest, Eyes

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth

Easy, Born, Felt

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Franklin P. Jones

Water, Language, Hot

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, Far, Effort

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
Stefan Kanfer

Powerful, Imagery

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. Lovecraft

After, Far, Horror

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

Words, Remember, Living

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