“I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.” PeopleMayMeanCountryHouseLeftPresidentJusticeStruggleGreaterLandStrangeHusbandPortionsResentmentElegantMansionsIowaGood HusbandMartyredRoving Author:Mary Todd Lincoln
“Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.” MenHeartMeanCareNamesGreaterGreatnessStrangeGreat MenConsentEverlastingNobody Cares Author:John Ruskin
“We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.” IfsTryingWholeFeelingsAgeSituationGreaterPiecesLove YouStrangeFilledHolesComplexityCapturePuzzlesSincerelySimplifySay I Love YouFragmented Author:Christoffer Boe
“The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.” ThinkingKnowsWayDoeRealityBehindsKnownGreaterTroubleStrangeTruth IsBurdenHarmIgnorantPerilEnviedDeluded Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.” KnowsMenDoeI CanFacesJoyGreaterStrangeSolitudeBlindCuriosityStrangerStaringAshamedThirstBlindnessShamelessBlind Man Book:Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams Source: Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams
“Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.” WorldMatterHardHandsWould BeSoundGreaterImagineStrangeComfortablePassionatePerformersRebelListenersEarnestEnsembleQuartetsVirtuosity Author:Allan Kozinn
“There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.” RealEndsSelfGreaterCrimeStrangeBecomingWorthyPunishmentFrightenedAssimilationReal Self Book:The Indian Wants the Bronx Source: The Indian Wants the Bronx
“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.” IfsMenShouldMayTurnsIndividualWonderGreaterSecurityExampleStrangeDrugSucceedStandardsAgreeExperimentsBoredomOur SocietyProvidingCostumesAmusementRiotCleanlinessIngeniousAnonymityHaircutsMayhemVandalism Author:Robert Ardrey