Top 1200 Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

I am a very introvert person who cannot initiate a chat with a stranger.

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

Yes, both 'Being Human' and 'Outlander' are known for their loyal fanbases. The beauty of both of those jobs was that the characters were very removed from me. So I've been lucky to get off scot-free, without any strange encounters. The wigs, blood, and strange onscreen faces/voices - they haven't found their way into my day-to-day life. Yet.

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Americans, and now the new Americans are being thrown off their land by the corporations.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

?Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

My dad started to watch westerns at dollar cinemas in Seoul and felt like America was a miraculous place. His family had lost a lot of land during the Korean War and the Japanese occupation. That affected him a lot as a kid. He always felt like he needed to come to the U.S. and get land.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.

Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, 'A stranger arrives.'

Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

Stranger Things' was my first job, and I was learning everything as I was doing it and it was such a whirlwind.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.

Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.

The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.

Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

But, I feel like I grew up in the '80s now from 'Stranger Things.'

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.