Quotes 81 till 100 of 147.
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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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Politics makes strange postmasters.
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Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
Al de mooie paarden (1992) 139 -
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
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St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) -
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
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Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, I amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.
Essay on Criticism 327 -
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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