Strange Bedfellows Quotes & Sayings

Politics makes strange bedfellows. — Charles Dudley Warner

We talk a bit, until Tess is sufficiently calm, and then I take her upstairs and see her snuggled back into bed with Cyclops and one of Maura's romance novels. Strange bedfellows, but both seem to comfort her, and it serves to remind me again that she is a strange mix of woman and child, carrying a burden far too heavy for her. — Jessica Spotswood

War makes strange bedfellows. — Helen Thomas

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. — Steven Pinker

The fact is that far too many professing Christians live their lives, day in and day out, on the basis of something other than the Bible. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

It would be something fine if we could learn how to bless the lives of children. They are the people of new life. Children are the only people nobody can blame. They are the only ones always willing to make a start; they have no choice. Children are the ways the world begin again and again.
"But in general, our children have no voice
that we will listen to. We force, we blank them into the bugle/bell regulated lineup of the Army/school, and we insist on silence.
"But even if we cannot learn to bless their lives (our future times), at least we can try to find out how we already curse and burden their experience: how we limit the wheeling of their inner eyes, how we terrify their trust, and how we condemn the raucous laughter of their natural love. What's more, if we will hear them, they will teach us what they need; they will bluntly formulate the tenderness of their deserving. — June Jordan

War did indeed make strange bedfellows of people. — Kate Atkinson

What a man finds circa se or sub se is overwhelming in amount, what he finds in se is embarassing in its obscurity, but when from his own being he would obtain light as to what is supra se, then indeed he finds himself face to face with a dark and somewhat terrifying mystery. The trouble is that he is himself involved in the mystery. If, in any true sense, man is an image of God, how should he know himself without knowing God? But if it is really of God that he is an image, how should he know himself? — Etienne Gilson

Politics make strange bedfellows. — Charles Dudley Warner

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way. — Terence McKenna

Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do. — Trevor Noah

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. — Groucho Marx

I noticed years ago that when people (myself definitely included) are anxious they tend to busy themselves with irrelevant activities, because these distract from and therefore reduce their actual experience of anxiety. To stay perfectly still is to feel the fear at its maximum intensity, so instead you scuttle around doing things as though you are, in some mysterious way, short of time. — John Cleese

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. — Walt Disney Company

Adversity makes strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare

Poverty has strange bedfellows. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk. — Los Angeles Times

Tragedy makes for strange bedfellows. — Lorraine Heath

Religion makes strange bedfellows. — Bernard Cornwell

Libraries make strange bedfellows — Phyllis Rose

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard

Well, Kaleb's voice whispered in Nikita's mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out of us all. — Nalini Singh

One of the things I've really realized over the past number of years is that you can't plan - you really don't know what's going to happen. All the plans I made for myself all turned out really differently in the end, so I just go with it. — Lights

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — Eric Maisel

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani

What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf)
Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron)
I thought that was politics. (Wulf)
It's both. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon