“I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.” KnowsWantedYoungAttitudeYouthStrangeLaughterLoudLaughedInvoluntary Book:The Town in Bloom Source: The Town in Bloom
“One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.” ShouldHappensAttitudePracticeDivineStrangeAccidentsThings HappenWitnessSchemesStrange ThingsWhatever HappensAdopting Author:Ramana Maharshi
“[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.” MenMindHas BeensPoliticalPoliticsAttitudeStrangeProductsAbusePraiseVanityDelusionOne TimeMixturesPublic LifeSpoiledTimidityAnother Time Author:Calvin Coolidge
“There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.” PersonsReasonNightCertainGivenAttitudeVirtueEventsStrangeCircumstancesVicesWoundsToleranceComplexityRecognizingFamiliarityInexplicableReason To Love Author:Marcel Proust
“Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.” AbleSuccessOrderNationsSocialRaceAttitudeEconomyStrangeDegreesBehaviorDiversitySuccess And FailureSocial OrderCultural DiversityNational EconomyBehavior And Attitude Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This was a big help to me. Also, the people who were most cruel to me when I first came to America were black Americans. They made absolute fun of the way I talked, the way I dressed. I couldn't dance. The people who were most kind and loving to me were white people. So what can one make of that? Perhaps it was a coincidence that all the people who found me strange were black and all the people who didn't were white.” PeopleKindHelpingFunBlackAttitudeStrangeCoincidence Author:Jamaica Kincaid