Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

In this world of memories, there's no need for strangers. -Kenshin to Kaoru

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.