Top 1200 Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond! Could I not have a sight of it again?" Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught the strange gleam in Boromir's eyes, yet his face was still kind and friendly. "It is best that it should lie hidden," he answered. "As you wish. I care not." said Boromir.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Things like, when a total stranger says, 'I want you to record something for my forthcoming wedding,' that can be a bit tiresome. But it's a high-class problem. It doesn't hurt my feelings.

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Well, we shoot for so long on 'Stranger Things' that I know Atlanta really well.

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

I don't think I've seen that sort of character in a long time in this genre because again, there was a time when you could have quirky, strange characters that you grew to love, you didn't quite understand, you know, and then all of a sudden they became almost cardboard cutouts for awhile. You kind of know the guy, what his deal is - this guy's hard to figure out. He has some strange habits, but, you learn to love him and you discover more about him, where it comes from.

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

I wanted to create a believable feeling for 18th Century reality in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. I didn't want this typical film feel of strange people in strange costumes, not really knowing what to do or how to move. If you put an 18th Century costume on Alan Rickman, it looks like he's been wearing it forever because he inhabits the stuff. He is a character that can really travel in time as an actor and transform into this 18th Century person with seemingly no effort.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.