#strange

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

#despise #events #strange #terrible #welcome

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#always #aspects #clamour #competence #fame

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better. ↗

— Phil Collins

#cope #crossing #day #difference #i

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life. ↗

— John Corbett

#bit #dinner #four #go #i

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#another #anything #been #cannot #conceive

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#away #basic #basic things #being #duped

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#any #capable #demonstrative #durable #feeling

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace. ↗

— Jill Eikenberry

#carry #child #gives #gremlins #him

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance