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Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?” “I was imagining it was Evor.” “Strange, they do not greatly resemble each other.” “I have a good imagination.” “In that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be a savior, so he says, in his famous phrase, "Only I can fix it!" That's a strange and weird statement for anybody to make, but it's central to Trump's sense of self and self-presentation. And I think that has a lot to do with his identification with dictators. No matter how many they kill and no matter what else they do, they have this capacity to rule by decree without any interference by legislators or courts.

Don't you think it's strange how many referees work at Footlocker?

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship it was illegal to speak Catalan. This is an experience that we Catalans have all had to varying extents. Some more tense than others, but it's something we all share.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

From my earliest youth I've been riddled with angst about the homogeneity of the world and have tried to do things to break it: attacking abercrombie & fitch in the mall with a plunger, posting strange statues made of garbage around my town, different kinds of interventions, parades and experiments. I've always cared a lot about difference.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.