Top 40 Quotes About Strays
#1. Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events.
James Joyce
#2. It wasn't like I hired him. I don't fucking hire any of them. They show up for work and then Grace gets pissed when I won't pay them. PTSD Jesse followed Alex back from Florida like some lost puppy. I keep telling Alex not to feed strays.
Lexi Blake
#3. He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. The strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful. one
Charles Bukowski
#5. Always remember, my little angel of mercy, it's the strays that are feral....
Suzanne Steele
#6. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. (Ezek. 34:16)
Lisa Bevere
#7. Some people collect stamps or beer mats; Mum collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people, and as she believed, a whole host of "little people." Had she been confronted that night with a lion,she'd have made the same comment "The poor thing.
Fynn
#8. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
George W. Bush
#9. Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
Walter De La Mare
#10. He who strays discovers new paths.
Nils Kjaer
#11. If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#12. Numbered are the days
of hunger stricken strays
a woman's curving taste
a paper police state.
Virginia Petrucci
#13. The farther the curve strays from the x-axis, the farther the relationship is from breakup.
John Green
#14. If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.
Ethel Smyth
#15. It keeps strays in the flock. To word it differently: 'You must live up to the popular code if you believe in it; but if you don't believe in it, then you MUST live up to it!
Sinclair Lewis
#16. The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path.
Thomas G. Bandy
#17. You're always caring about strays and outcasts among us, myself included. You really are a very odd girl, you know; so little sense of what is good for you.
Rachel Caine
#18. Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.
Josh Duhamel
#19. Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A.E. Housman
#20. The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.
Publilius Syrus
#21. When the moon strays off into space and the last star winks out forever, I will still love you
Linda Lael Miller
#22. I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge.
Joe Haldeman
#23. Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."
John Eliot
#24. He who strays from tradition becomes a
sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its
slave. Destruction follows in any case.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. I can't simply adopt strays because they seem winsome.
Rachel Caine
#26. Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?
Barack Obama
#27. Have no fear, cowboy," Nikki replied in a tone meant to disguise the warm flush that had come over her. "I corralled all my wild impulses long ago."
"Did you, now?" He still stood in the doorway, head cocked. "Somehow, I think you may have missed a few strays.
Victoria Vane
#29. The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.
Molefi Kete Asante
#31. I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
Raekwon
#32. Waifs and bloody strays, because normal people wouldn't be coppers.
Terry Pratchett
#33. My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.
Tommy Hilfiger
#34. Bloody hell, son, don't tell me you brought the girl with you. You, you never bring the strays home.
Sapphire.
#35. She says this like people are constantly knocking down our door for a nice, dry, warm place to stay, when, in fact, we are the strays.
Gayle Forman
#36. I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.
R. Scott Bakker
#38. She is a fool in too many ways to number: in affairs of infidelity, if a man strays, it is not the fault of the woman with whom he lays. A worthy heart eschews temptation, despite the magnitude. Clearly my heart is not worthy.
Karen Marie Moning
#39. A woman needs to be told that you would sacrifice anything for her. A man needs to be told he is being useful. When the man or woman strays from that formula, the other loses trust. When trust is lost, communication falls apart.
Scott Adams
#40. Qui-Gon used to do this. He used to roam around the galaxy picking up strays." "Like me, you mean?" said Anakin tightly. "Useless hangers-on like me?
Karen Miller
