A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely no question as to who WINS because the VICTORY has already been posted on the SCOREBOARD. The only really strange thing is all of this is that we are still down here on the FIELD trying to decide which TEAM’S JERSEY we want to wear!
Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.
I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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