The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.
In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.
I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.
I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.
The one who does not stray away from herhis nature will live long.
The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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.
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.
One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.
A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog. "
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first?
Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
You know, honey, Natalie's expecting her second. " I arched my eyebrows at my mother, not following the change of subject. "Second what? Mortgage? Conviction? Chance at life?" "Baby of course. Her second baby. The doctor says this one's a girl. " I laughed, genuinely amused that my mother thought it should have been so obvious. "Yeah. Well, I bet Natalie can't drop a Stray with a Powerhouse Right Hook.
