S Quotes
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“Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.”
“Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.”
Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
“Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.”
“Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.”
“Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.”
“Strangely, I’ve been craving something sweet lately. Do you want to eat?”
Han Sooyoung didn't wait for my answer and shoved the candy she was holding into my mouth. It had a lemon flavour. I ate the candy and Han Sooyoung looked at me quietly.
“By the way, that’s what i was eating.”
”So?”
“...You are really no fun.”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 3 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 3]
“Strangely it came to Gale then that he was glad. Yaqui had returned to his own — the great spaces, the desolation, the solitude — to the trails he had trodden when a child, trails haunted now by ghosts of his people, and ever by his gods. Gale realized that in the Yaqui he had known the spirit of the desert, that this spirit had claimed all which was wild and primitive in him.”
Source: Desert Gold
“Strangely, the rain has always been one of my best friends because it understands my sorrow. It speaks to my soul, and it lets me know that all is well. It never lied to me because my tears expressed my thoughts to the rain— it has done the same.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.”
“Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.”
“Strangely, from a life-change standpoint, I sold the company I was running and got divorced in the same month. And so there I was, at home, and I'm not the CEO. I took a few months thinking about what I wanted to do. When the first call came in about running a company owned by Deutsche Telekom, I thought it was laughable and really not something I'd do. I took the meeting mainly because the headhunter I knew. At first I thought I was just helping her fill out the roster, but then I dug into it.”
“Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.”
“Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.”
“Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.”
“Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.”
“Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes
The god inside the car”
Source: Selected poems
“Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, "This is the last season. I'm not gonna read tomorrow morning. Forget it." The first thing when I wake up - quite late, usually - I am craving the newspaper.”
“Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.”
“Strangely, producing "Parisienne" was very long and difficult because the people who mainly finance films didn't understand the idea of a young foreign girl having a good time in Paris. They wanted to see her suffering and poor, and definitely not falling in love with three French men!”
“Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.”
“Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.”
“Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.”
“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”
Source: Returning to Earth
“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
“Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.”
“Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.”
Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
“Stranger Danger
Nevaeh- There is always someone in the way or so it seems. I believe in not saying too many negative words so that I can receive my blessings, which will surely come in due time, and can bring me joy. Yet I cannot see why this was meant to be like always in all my lives. My Kristen was my everything to me, but she left me to be with him, but was it what she wanted? In addition to that I do not want to leave my home or live alone, is this the time- the right time to break on through to the other side or maybe, maybe not.”
Source: Nevaeh Struggle with Affections
“Stranger Danger.
You can't "stranger danger" someone when you asked them to date you.”
Source: This May End Badly
“Stranger, go back to Sparta and tell our people
that we who were slain obeyed the code.”
“Stranger in a strange country.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“Stranger on your path, with a candle to spare, leave one behind, where light escapes.
And the Sun expects nothing.”
“Stranger's Park by Stewart Stafford
Up the empty, welcoming path,
Half grass/gravel in composition,
Past ruined cottage foundations,
And tree trunk with vaginal cleft.
Swings sway, empty playground,
Birds serenading wraith children,
Roundhead bins stand as sentries,
Keeping errant litter off the grass.
Army truck and wailing ambulance,
Shatter the tranquility as they pass,
Blaring car horn joins the cacophony,
Turning on my heel, I journey home.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Stranger still Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos has made the same admission. In the aforementioned interview in 30 Days he said: "The emergency of our time is to show people that the Church of today is the same as the Church has always been." But why is there such an "emergency" in the first place? When in the entire history of the Catholic Church did it ever have to be demonstrated that the Church was still the same as before? Why would such a demonstration even be necessary if there were not a very good reason to suspect that the Church has been changed?
There is indeed good reason to suspect this, as we have shown: Since Vatican II the Catholic Church has undergone and Adaptation precisely along the lines predicted, plotted, and carried out by Her worst enemies. And those in charge of the Catholic Church today refuse to recognize what has happened, even if they are not conscious agents of destruction themselves . . . They blindly and stubbornly defend the Adaptation of the Catholic Church as if it were a dogma of the Faith, while the real dogmas of the Faith are being undermined throughout the Church before their very eyes, while they do nothing.”
Source: The Devil's Final Battle
“Stranger Things happen when AI meets cars—suddenly, the future feels supernatural yet logical. – AIinCars”
“Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.”
“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?”
Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
“Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.”
“Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“Strangers are an endangered species.”
Source: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
“Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]”
“Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.”
“Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.”
“Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet”
“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”
“Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.”
“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen”
“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.”
“Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.”
Source: The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin
“Strangers are what friends are made of.”
“Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451