“We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.” FeelingsHandsTurnsSocialStrangeMembersConnectionsWitnessEndeavorContractsEroticCalculatingSocial ContractInversions Book:Love and Friendship Source: Love and Friendship
“If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.” IfsWayHomeGrowsGrowing UpStrangeProudMountainMembersSnowLiftsHorizonCrowns Author:Margaret Craven
“My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.” MayNamesStrangeMembersMy FamilyVegetarianTheodoreTripletEpileptics Author:Brother Theodore
“And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.” WayPastSpiritualSpiritCultureLandStrangeMembersTraditionAbsenceIndianSignificanceAttachmentParadoxAdoptingHold MeDominating Author:Linda Hogan
“We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.” OrderEnergyStrangeMembersSpeciesMaking MoneyClimbingLaddersLadder Of SuccessClimbing The Ladder Author:Laurence J. Peter
“You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!” KnowsImportantHumorFunnyDecisionHalfStrangeCoupleMembersLonelyIntelligentSaneOrganismsStrange Things Author:Dylan Moran
“Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantWould BeEarthHumanityEnergyStrangePlanetsCitizensMembersLaughterResponsibleRewardsProfessionUnusualSaneOur PlanetExplosives Book:Funny people Source: Funny people
“Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.” PeopleBelieveDesireOpinionWeekStrangeConflictMembersInnovationOriginalsCanvas Author:Emily Yoffe
“It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.” MenWellsSpiritOrderAsksWealthClearStrangeMembersNotesAcceptedCustomsDocumentsSecrecyHintsSymbolismAdmittingFraternityMasonsLodgesMasonry Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry
“The Tea Baggers, they're not a movement, they're a cult.... Cults tend to populate from within, encouraging members to have huge broods of children and to give them strange names, like Moonbeam, and Trig.” GivingChildrenNamesMovementStrangeHugeMembersTeaCultMoonbeamsTea BagBagger Author:Bill Maher