Top 1200 Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

There's a lot to love about Nancy Wheeler in the second season of 'Stranger Things.'

It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

'Stranger Things' is the best TV show ever made, so I love watching that.

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird!

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'

One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the oldest cities in the land. There Professor Emery discovered men with blond hair and fair complexions. These individuals were revered and honored by the Egyptians as specially endowed elite.

As a student of Alice Waters, the patron saint of salad, I'm no stranger to the art of lettuce washing.

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

India is no stranger to crises - wars, hijackings, plane crashes - we have seen them all.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.