Quotes of Unusual - somelinesforyou

“ All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? ”

- Thomas Traherne

“ Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees. ”

- Boris Marshalov

“ Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ”

- Shaquille O’Neal

“ Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell. ”

- Robin Morgan

“ These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ”

- John Milton

“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land. ”

- Erwin H. Schell

“ This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ”

- Matthew

“ No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. ”

- William Cowper

“ Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. ”

- James F. Byrnes

“ Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”

- Angelique Arnauld

“ It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ”

- Elizabeth Taylor

“ It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ”

- Elizabeth Taylor

“ I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again — as I always am when I write. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. ”

- Ed Cunningham

“ Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too. ”

- Wynn Bullock

“ Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. ”

- James Thurber

“ Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish. ”

- Lord Byron

“ If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. ”

- Lord Buckley

“ Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ”

- Abraham Lincoln
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