Strange Facts Quotes

#1. It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#2. The subject is increased by the fact that while we have to deal with novel and strange facts, we have also to use old words in novel and inconsistent senses.

James Gleick

#3. Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.

Anonymous

#4. I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

Paul Wolfowitz

#5. Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

Albert Camus

#6. Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Werner Herzog

#7. Facts are a strange thing ... when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.

Richard Diaz

#8. Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

Terence McKenna

#9. People turned out so identical in certain root domestic particulars it made Gately feel strange sometimes, like he was in possession of certain overlarge private facts to which no man should be entitled.

David Foster Wallace

#10. There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.

Victor Hugo

#11. Cosmology and neuropsychology have absurdity in common. The raw facts are strange beyond imagination.

Paul Broks

#12. In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Michael Lewis

#14. It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.

Corrie Ten Boom

#15. Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

Larry Wall

#16. I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#17. It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

Phineas Quimby

#18. My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.

Jon Hamm

#20. If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Denis Norden

#21. Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#22. We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.

Sean M. Carroll

#23. The function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

Virginia Woolf

#25. It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

Alessia Cara

#26. It' s easy to weep when staying far away, doing nothing.

Steven Erikson

#27. When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head.

Joe Hill

#28. Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

Junot Diaz

#29. The real working class, though they hate war and are immune to jingoism, are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it.

George Orwell

#30. Love, he thought. That too is love. The old miracle. It not only casts a rainbow of dreams against the gray sky of facts - it also sheds romantic light upon a heap of dung - a miracle and a mad mockery. Suddenly he had the strange feeling of having become, in a remote way, an accomplice.

Erich Maria Remarque

#31. Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.

Noam Chomsky