“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.” PeopleIfsMeanLittlesHas BeensHappensCertainCoursesCasesNiceFateEventsStrangeBrokenCircumstancesMiracleSafetyOilSavedChainsConfusedFreakFenceMiraculousWhatever HappensDiscworldInteresting TimesCertain DeathChain Of Events Author:Terry Pratchett
“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.” KnowsMenShouldFatherEducationStrangeGeniusCircumstancesPaidBillsPreparedPracticalsItems Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.” KindSpiritualImaginationStrangePoetCircumstancesSightSupremeOwnersSurroundEndowmentEyewitnesses Author:Marie Corelli
“The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.” StatesExistenceTeachForeverStrangeCircumstancesFutureThis LifeOur ThoughtsDeparture Author:Orville Dewey
“I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways Im a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate.” WayTryingHas BeensSometimesDreamSeemsGirlOpportunityChanceCareersStrangeCircumstancesCelebrateAttractiveTypicalPublish Author:Pippa Middleton
“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
“We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level.” PeopleNeedsRealityLevelsSituationOur LivesEmotionalStrangeCircumstancesDrawsHappeningsThings HappenSubconsciousMetaphysicalStrange ThingsVery DeepPeople In Our Lives Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood.” PeopleWantFeelsStoriesEnjoyDecisionStrangeCircumstancesUnderstoodLogic Author:Arthur Bradford
“I've borne these two kids into a particularly strange circumstance. They are going to have to fend off a lot and protect themselves from a lot of projections and prejudice about who they are, coming from the family that they come from.” TwoKidsStrangeCircumstancesProtectPrejudiceProjection Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.” WaySometimesJesusClearStrangeCircumstancesConversationReflectionFollowingActiveTerritoryQuestioningPausesParticipationGodlyHesitationUnfamiliarFollowing JesusPrayerfulUnfamiliar TerritoryActive Participation Author:Eugene H. Peterson
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...” MenYearsMindMadeCountryGovernmentFacesLawCertainAsksIndividualInterestCommonNumbersGroupsStrangeDutyCircumstancesCourtNotionProfitContraryDoctrineClockCorporationsPublic InterestStatutesCommon Law Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.” MenDiesFallFoundTermStrangeCircumstancesFellowsMajorityCastsDebateSinnerTemptedCommonplaceAlarmsTrembling Book:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition
“It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.” MomentsHomeJoyStrangeCircumstancesDividesEpisodesFamiliarity Book:The Historian Source: The Historian