#strange

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. ↗

— Orville Wright

#already #been #even #first #flight

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. ↗

— Edward Young

#less #live #miracle #more #seems

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#case #death #discovered #gowns #had

I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#change #deal #fine #gets #i

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#am #i #i am #i have learned #intolerant

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #his #honor #land #most

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#encounter #had #now #photograph #purpose

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#even #evils #fate #fear #greatest

I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.' ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#australia #both #cancer #events #had

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive. ↗

— Billy Graham

#around #because #bit #feel #groups