strange quotes

• It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Thomas Mann) [strange/equality//democracy]
• 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. (Mark Twain) [strange/people]
• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [life/mind/strange]
• It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. (Elizabeth Taylor) [strange/teach/patience/time]
• I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones. (Sophia Loren) [ugly/strange/eyes]
• [A] mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. (William Wordsworth) [mind/strange]
• Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. (Maya Angelou) [education/being/strange]
• There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. (Elias Canetti) [more/strange]
• 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) [strange/intellect/sale]
• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. (Miguel De Cervantes) [strange/thoughts/sorrow/men]
• Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. (Miguel De Cervantes) [strange/heavy/light]
• That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. (Noel Coward) [strange/feeling/war]
• There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. (Rene Descartes) [strange]
• How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. (Albert Einstein) [strange/life/people]
• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. (Albert Einstein) [strange]
• Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. (George Eliot) [strange]
• Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [strange/monotony/age]
• 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. (Betty Friedan) [strange/being/pain/discipline]
• The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: Is this all? (Betty Friedan) [problem/women/strange/women]
• It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [strange/fear]
• Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [strange]
• Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure. (Napoleon Hill) [strange/nature/desire/reality]
• Politics makes strange postmasters. (Kin Hubbard) [politics/strange]
• In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children. (Henrik Ibsen) [strange]
• The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register. (Eugene Ionesco) [universe/strange/moment/universe]
• It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. (Samuel Johnson) [strange/melancholy/human]
• All things must change to something new, to something strange. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [change/strange]
• 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 Lowell) [life/strange/change]
• It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Thomas Mann) [strange/equality//democracy]
• There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. (Henry Miller) [strange/fear/matter]
• Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide. (William Morris) [men/strange]

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