Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the sun arrives on rooftops like a gentle stranger, rain rushes us love to love, stop to stop, these veins of leaf, hand, storm and stream, as if in pursuit of us and what we are becoming.

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

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.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness