"Adversity makes strange bedfellows."
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"it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams"
"The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it."
"If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing."
"With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be."
"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
"I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle."
"The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own"
"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."
"We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end."
"It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues."
"You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back."
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
"Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill."
"Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated."
"Strange is our situation here upon earth."
"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
"I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me."
"It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them."
"[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!"