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Quotes About Stray

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house. —Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds22
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
CLIFF'S TOP KUROSAWA FILMS (tie) Seven Samurai and Ikiru Yojimbo Throne of Blood Stray Dog The Bad Sleep Well (for the opening scene alone)
~ Quentin Tarantino
I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.
~ Randeep Hooda
There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.
~ Rafael Sabatini
He's just a lost dog," she added with a cool smile. "Perhaps you can find a home for him. He's housebroken—more or less." And
~ Raymond Chandler
Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.
~ Kelley Armstrong, Bitten
Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away.
~ Sandi Bachom
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
~ Timothy Keller
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
~ Joseph Joubert
Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The world is a silence broken by the barking of a stray dog.
~ Yasmina Khadra
I had two cats growing up that were indoor/outdoor and both of them died from being hit by a car. One of them, she didn't have an ID tag on, so someone just thought it was a stray cat I highly recommend to keep your cats indoors. Their lives end up a lot longer.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
All of the stray asbestos fibers would certainly have been removed with meticulous care. The contractors were, after all, government employees. That thought sparked uneasiness in him all over again.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
A stray strand of Ivy's black hair was hitting my face as I rode behind her.
~ Kim Harrison
Lake breathed out a happy sigh as she approached the row filled with guns. "Matilda was my first, but ladies, you know how to make a girl want to stray.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.
~ D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;
~ Robert Harris
So far, the ordinary observer; an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child of whom shy Matthew Cuthbert was so ludicrously afraid.
~ L.M. Montgomery
In space there's no way to ground an electric current. If you have stray voltage, it'll find a path, no matter what.
~ Andrew Mayne
Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to hear some of the new energy that a band will put into it, but you kind of want to hear some of the basic parts of the song. I mean, that's what makes it the song that you like.
~ Joe Perry
Starting to think about the viewers "out there" as different from the people inside the show was one of the early signs of how far Saturday Night had begun to stray from its original identification with its audience.
~ Doug Hill
If you don't feed a stray cat, it quits coming to your door.
~ Robert Wright