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Doubt wisely; in strange way
To stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne

Stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles. — William Gibson

Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road - so hard to shake off. So easy to get back. — Barbara Kingsolver

I don't know exactly what drove me to stray, but I think there's a certain sadness to finally getting what you want. — Jessica Pan

Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.
God, and not we, hath safely fought to day. — William Shakespeare

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri

Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining. — Will Advise

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk. — Patrick Stump

The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long. — Laozi

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. — Michael Parenti

Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray. — Robert Bridges

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so. — A.D. Posey

Joys are like stray cats...the more you feed them...the more you get! ~Bertha — Jane Carroll

Into the dark, smoky restaurant, smelling of rich raw foods on the buffet, slid Nicole's sky-blue suit like a stray segment of the weather outside. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities. — Charles De Lint

Writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it. — Ayn Rand

I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it. — Dexter Fletcher

Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare. — Kafka Asagiri

But he just stared at my eyes, as if searching for a stray eyelash. A free wish. — Leah Raeder

Clint collected stray facts the way belly buttons collect lint. — Laura DiSilverio

Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie — C.D. Reiss

Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back — Adam Young

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime. — Kinky Friedman

In the end, like any stray, I was conquered by the promise of continued food and shelter. Trust would take longer. — Kelley Armstrong

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. — F Scott Fitzgerald

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence. — Yehuda Amichai

Among your earthiest words, the angels stray... — Patrick Kavanagh

Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray. — John Calvin

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray. — Thomas Campion

You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally. — Dennis Lehane

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. — Robert Breault

But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you. — Jeanette Winterson

Should doesn't belong in a relationship. It supposes one person's will is more right than the other's. That is just not true. Stray from should. — Vaun Murphrey

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. — James Russell Lowell

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old. — Drake Bell

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. — Janette Barber

I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath. — George Monbiot

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God. — Timothy Keller

Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray — Dorothy Parker

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy. — Jean Anouilh

Pulling back a stray lock of hair, she drew a question mark around her ear. p. 314 — Anthony Marra

I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? — Charlotte Bronte

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray. — S.A. Tawks

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave. — Michelle M. Pillow

Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat! — Sandra Ross

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of; — Robert Harris

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger. — Robert Reich

How anybody in town could think me a murderer when I couldn't even throw a stray out into the rain, I cannot fathom. — Linda Barlow

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants. — Dionne Brand

Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs — Leslie Caron

Never stray from the Way. — Miyamoto Musashi

I am a kind of stray cat, aren't I? — Shirley Jackson

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry. — Danzy Senna

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way — Patrick Rothfuss

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats. — Drake Bell

Always remember, my little angel of mercy, it's the strays that are feral.... — Suzanne Steele

He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter is Parisian. In — Victor Hugo

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. — Shannon L. Alder

And the girl gets married?
I have a bunch of stray cats
in my yard

I wouldn't have a daughter — Jack Kerouac

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit. — Sean Bean

Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs. — David B. Lentz

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker. — Rebecca Ferguson

It was loud and crazy, and sometimes someone got shot with a stray poisoned arrow, but it was never boring. — Anonymous

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. — Heinrich Boll

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray. — Jules Verne

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. — Ethel Lynn Beers

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

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. — Rabindranath Tagore

Everyone loves the single girl. She is the adorable needy human equivalent of a stray pet others want to domesticate. — Betsy Israel

They, who have no eyes in their face, are not called blind. They alone are blind, O Nanak, who stray away from their Lord. — Guru Angad

In a wacky way, she felt as if they belonged to each other. Two stray, bad-ass loners who didn't know how to handle people. — Jennifer Probst

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter. — Joe Hill

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. — William Cowper

Don't stray from your Heart's intent. — Rumi

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles. — Amy Weber

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light. — Dar Williams

Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away. — Sandi Bachom

We don't know where we're going, but we're not going to stray from familiar paths. — Gary Hamel

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake. — Rabindranath Tagore

You have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes. — Raymond Chandler

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything ... like stray cats and squirrels. — Eric Roberts

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray. — Lionel Shriver

And now the past stalked about like a purposeless stray animal among heaps of rubbish and junk that no one wanted. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around. — Joyce Rupp

Where's a stray bullet from a random drive-by shooting when you need one? — Emma Chase

He reached down and picked up the ear and threw it at a stray. The dog sniffed it, snapped it up and wandered off down the street, chewing. — Michael Kazepis

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk! — Pawan Mishra

This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Hungry for breath
like a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air. — Jack Campbell

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free ... — Saint John Chrysostom

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills. — Chanakya

Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai. — Zia Haider Rahman

I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far. — Ashley Greene

You can find three species at any defind area ... Stray animals, pet animals and SOCIAL animals ... I wonder where HUMANS are..!!! — Mayank Sharma

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script. — Sarah Steele

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted. — Christina Aguilera

But Iluvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair — John Geddes