A Quotes
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“A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.”
“A strange twilight strangled the city’s voice to desperate murmurs as every foot paused, every voice hushed, every eye lifted and quickly fell again, unable to bear the light of even a half-occluded sun.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“A strange, typically dark mood suffuses his images, which enmesh the viewer and entice him or her into memory and thought, fueling the imagination.”
Source: David Lynch: The Factory Photographs
“A strange, typically dark mood suffuses his images, which enmesh the viewer and entice him or her into memory and thought, fueling the imagination--as if what the image capture are moments extracted from the flow of time, that had something preceding them and themselves precede certain events: scenarios for stories.”
Source: David Lynch: The Factory Photographs
“A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.”
Source: Dark Continuum
“A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“A strangely dirty and irregular life these dark-eyed, dark-haired, half-happy savages lead in this clean wilderness.”
Source: The Yosemite
“A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn.”
“A stranger becomes a friend and a friend becomes a foe.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A stranger came out to White Acre one day to sell Henry a pony, for Alma to learn to ride. The pony's name was Soames, and he was the color of sugar icing, and Alma loved him immediately. A price was negotiated. The two men settled on three dollars. Alma, who was only six years old, asked, "Excuse me, sir, but does that price also include the bridle and saddle which the pony is currently wearing?"
The stranger balked at the question, but Henry roared with laughter. "She's got you there, man!" he bellowed, and for the rest of that day, he ruffled Alma's hair whenever she came nearer, saying, "What a good little auctioneer I've got as a daughter!”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“A stranger can become soul mate, but just as quickly a soul mate can also become stranger.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.”
Source: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)
“A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.”
“A Stranger in My Own Skin
I watch them move so easily,
laughter spilling from their lips like water,
conversations looping and twisting
like ribbons in the air.
They fit into each other’s worlds
as if molded from the same clay,
as if their bones were shaped
to recognize one another.
And then, there is me.”
Source: Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work
“A stranger is a person in whom we have not yet found a part of ourselves.”
Source: il confine di ghiaccio
“A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.”
“A stranger is just someone you haven't met yet. What do you call someone you knew better than yourself, but you no longer recognize? A ghost?”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“A stranger is often more interesting than the familiar because your brain craves new experiences. But remember, it’s the familiar who truly cares about you”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange.”
Source: Open Heart Therapy
“A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.”
Source: For Two Thousand Years
“A stranger stood beside him, tall and stern-faced, blindingly handsome, with silvery-gold hair. He looked like an angel. Not the kind offering comfort- the kind sent to smite people. Almost certainly this was the angel of death, and about time he appeared. Even hell would be better than this.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“A Stranger
There is a love I reminisce,
Like a seed
I've never sown.
Or lips that im yet to kiss,
and eyes
not met my own.
Hands that wrap around my wrists,
and arms
that feel like home.
I wonder how it is I miss,
these things
I've never known.”
Source: Love & Misadventure
“A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults? To will is to stir up paradoxes. Everything is ordered in such a way as to bring into being that poisoned peace produced by thoughtlessness, lack of heart, or fatal renunciations.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.”
“A stranger's rose is but a thorn.”
“A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.”
“A strangled, sobbing gasp choked Wendy as the world started to spin around her. She tried to breathe, to break through whatever hold this memory still had on her, but it was all she could do not to let herself go completely. Every piece of her was trapped in that day, silently screaming for her younger self not to abandon her mother in her last moments.”
Source: The Rescue
“A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster”
“A strategic board has a view of looking ahead, an insight to look deeper, and competency to look beyond.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.”
Source: CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
“A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage. ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day.”
“A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“A strategist is one who helps people relax into their creative skills. People won't rally unless an idea is beautiful... Everyone is hanging on every word... Amazing.”
“A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.”
“A strategy is an action plan of what you want to achieve and how. It defines where you want to see yourself in the long-term and how you are going to use your resources, skills and competencies to achieve that.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A strategy is not permanent. It’s like water, it will keep changing itself as the obstacles come.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A strategy is only good if the community sees tangible and sustainable results.”
“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.”
“A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.”
Source: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.”
“A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.”
“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.”
“A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.”
Source: Valiant
“A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.”
Source: By Nightfall: A Novel
“A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?”