“Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way.” PeopleKnowsWayShouldIdeasWalksDealsSkyStrangeShould HaveBridgesPlanesAstonishingNobody KnowsWalks Of LifeClueless Author:Peter York
“I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.” IfsWayLifeShouldFirstsSoulDoneOrderChurchSinExampleFieldsStrangeShould HaveSavingSundayPreachingDecencyReconcileTenacious Author:John Wesley
“The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan and if people think I am strange they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldGirlSportsStrangeMetsShould HaveProductionsQueensDepartmentStaffPinsPin UpPin Up Girl Author:David Icke
“I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.” ShouldFilmStuffWaterStrangeBandShould HaveWideNoiseRangeCartoonClassical MusicPeanutsStuff I Like Author:Brian Pinkerton
“That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then, and perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.” IfsThinkingWantGivingShouldTryingPersonsStillsEndsLawSufferingSpeakResponsibilityIdentityStrangeShould HaveDown AndAngryWarriorTaking Responsibility Book:Your Native Land, Your Life Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We’re back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much.” ThinkingShouldReasonSeemsValuesEffectsStrangeShould HaveSilentInjusticeFantasticBoredomNo ReasonDegradationEnslavement Author:Martin Amis
“Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.” ShouldFirstsLightWould BeNightCertainFeltStuffHoursDarkStrangeFirst TimeShould HaveBright Lights Book:Along for the Ride Source: Along for the Ride
“And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.” IfsKnowsWantShouldHumansHomeBeautifulHuman BeingsBreakKnow HowStrangeMouthsShould HaveAwakeBreak UpHow To LoveShire Author:Warsan Shire
“Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.” IfsShouldFirstsFactsHeardHumilityStrangePrideProudShotsShould HaveGolfRoundsInsaneArroganceAttributesChipsEmperorSinglesRoman Emperor Book:The Heart of a Goof Source: The Heart of a Goof