Stranger famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
-- A. E. Housman -
…for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
-- Alan Cumming -
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
-- Albert Camus -
Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
-- Albert Payson Terhune -
I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.
-- Ali Landry -
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger,
-- Andrew Solomon -
Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap
-- Angie Sage -
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
-- Ani DiFranco -
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.
-- Annie Sprinkle -
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.
-- Anton Chekhov -
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.
-- Arthur Symons -
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
-- August Wilson -
I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
-- Aurangzeb -
[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.
-- Barack Obama -
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.
-- Barbara Deming -
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
-- Ben Stein -
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
-- Bernard Malamud -
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
-- Bernard Malamud -
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
-- Bernard Malamud -
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
-- Bill Moyers -
The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger ...
-- Billy Graham -
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
-- Billy Sunday -
I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
-- Carey Mulligan -
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own..
-- Carly Simon -
We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.
-- Cassia Leo -
If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
-- Catherine Booth -
There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.
-- Charles Baxter -
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.
-- Cherie Priest -
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
-- Chester Brown -
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.
-- Chris Pirillo -
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
-- Christopher McDougall -
I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
-- Chuck Klosterman -
Naked in front of strangers? I can barely be naked in front of my lovers; in front of myself.
-- Clara -
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
-- Daniel Handler -
I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.
-- Darryl Worley -
Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.
-- David Ebershoff -
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks..
-- David Gemmell -
Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.
-- David Levithan -
We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
-- Dean Koontz -
They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
-- Deb Caletti -
Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.
-- Diane Setterfield -
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis -
It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.
-- Edith Pattou -
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.
-- Edmund White -
Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
-- Elaine Stritch -
perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.
-- Elif Safak -
I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.
-- Elisabeth Hasselbeck -
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
-- Enoch Powell -
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
-- Eric Hoffer -
sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?
-- Fannie Hurst -
Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.
-- Frank Marshall Davis -
That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?
-- Franny Billingsley -
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
-- Frederic Raphael -
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
-- Gene Hackman -
Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
-- Georg Simmel -
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
-- George Eliot -
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
-- George McGovern -
Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
-- George Michael -
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
-- George R. R. Martin -
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
-- George Santayana -
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
-- George Whitman -
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
-- Georges Simenon -
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
-- Gertrude Stein -
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.
-- Greg Cox -
The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
-- Greg Egan -
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
-- Haruki Murakami -
It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.
-- Hayley Williams -
I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger.
-- Heath Ledger -
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.
-- Helena Christensen -
[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap...
-- Hilary Mantel -
Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.
-- Hilary Thayer Hamann
