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Quote:Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.[T.S. Eliot]

Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.[Mark Twain]

Quote:In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.[H.G. Wells]

Quote:There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.[Daniel Webster]

Quote:What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.[Jack Handey]

Quote:It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider]

Quote:They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. [David Assael]

Quote:Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. [Sir Arthur Eddington]

Quote:We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. [Sir Arthur Eddington]

Quote:Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. [Franklin P. Jones]

Quote:I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote:It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. [Elizabeth Taylor]



Definitions of: strange

Definition: Belonging to another country; foreign.

Definition: Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

Definition: Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

Definition: Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.

Definition: Reserved; distant in deportment.

Definition: Backward; slow.

Definition: Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

Definition: To alienate; to estrange.

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