S Quotes
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“Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.”
Source: Before They Are Hanged
“Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.”
“Strange looks everything for a stranger!”
Source: Mottaket
“Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave the man a dog's organ. In a related story today, Keith Richards was seen chasing a mailman.”
“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run … but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.…”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime. The kind of peak that never comes again.
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing you were there and alive, in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!”
“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.”
“Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph”
“Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.”
“Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs”
“Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”
“Strange smiled. Or rather he twisted something in his face and Sir Walter supposed that he was smiling. Sir Walter could not really recall what his smile had looked like before.”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.”
“Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen.”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“Strange surroundings make youngsters cling to habits that represent earlier securities.”
Source: Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen
“Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.”
“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.”
Source: Shirley and The Professor
“Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.”
“Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.”
Source: Look To Windward
“Strange that she is both the anchor against the storm and the storm itself.”
Source: War Storm
“Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.”
“Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative 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.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.”
“Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.”
“Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.”
“Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.”
Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875
“Strange thing is I actually find the movie and her commentary interesting, especially after she hits a
couple of vodkas and really starts cranking. It’s one of those movies set in a screwed-up society in
the near future. Totalitarianism rules. Half the characters look like refugees from a seventies punkrock club and the other half look like space Nazis. One of the women is pretty hot for a bald chick.
Aimee says the themes are simple: Goodbye individuality, goodbye uniqueness. The uniform,
soulless future is coming and the seeds have already been planted. She’s read or watched about a
billion similar stories. That’s what people fear, she says, because they think it’s like death and that
death is the ultimate robber of identity.
“Do you think that’s what death’s really like?” I ask.
“No,” she says. “I think, when we die, we don’t lose our identity, we gain a much, much bigger
one. As big as the universe.”
“That’s the best news I’ve heard all day,” I tell her, and we clink our glasses together to toast our
grand universal selves.”
Source: The Spectacular Now
“Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."”
“Strange things are always abounding. Watch and discern. There is always a lesson to be learned.”
Source: Love Found Me
“Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They say
he is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his own
spirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.”
“Strange things are mind-opener because when we see something strange we immediately start thinking! Anything bizarre activates your brain; anything usual makes you sleep!”
“Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate”
“Strange things happen with electricity in a vacuum.”
“Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer..." "Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.”
“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books”
“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool”
“Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
And the man who dares to tell the truth,
Is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
“Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.”
“Strange to hear atheists say 'god' when having great sex.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”
“Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.”
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
“Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.”
“Strange to think of a form of love going extinct, like a carrier pigeon, a rare tortoise, a lilac or apple whose seeds are not to be found anymore, the scent and taste of the thing long lost, never to be touched again.”
Source: The Art of the Wasted Day