Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

The peculiar situation of the anthropological fieldworker, participating simultaneously in two distinct worlds of meaning and action, requires that he relate to his research subjects as an "outsider," trying to "learn" and penetrate their way of life, while relating to his own culture as a kind of metaphorical "native." To both groups he is a professional stranger, a person who holds himself aloof from their lives in order to gain perspective.

The question ‘Don’t you remember me?’ is awkward, especially if it was asked by someone you have never known.

The rangers of the night stay strangers in the eye of time.

There is no other place on this earth where I feel such a strong sense of being a stranger than in my historic homeland.

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

There’s an undeniable thrill about meeting a stranger and spending a few hours together, indulging in each other’s lives. It’s that spurt of saying whatever you want and leaving it behind with someone who’ll never look at you and think of it again.

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

Um, thanks,” Jackson told her. “And your name is…?” “I’m Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf,” she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. “Van Der Graaf?” Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn’t want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but… Van Der Graaf? “What are you laughing at?” Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. “I like my name. If you’re going to be a jerk, then I won’t help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care.” “…Harsh,” said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something ‘off’ about her, something that Jackson couldn’t quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. “Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?” He couldn’t resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. “Who else lives here?” he urged. “Me, myself and I,” said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression

We shall forever be battling our scars, healing ourselves from the deep scars of childhood, to the awkward scars of adolescence, the hard scars of adulthood and scars of frail old age. In the answering spark in another's eyes, the cosy laughter of friends, and the circle of family, we rush to heal, heal our scars. In the eyes of a complete stranger, we finally find our balm until they are a stranger no more, and then we scar again, only to bleed again.

What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

Why do we believe one stranger and not another?

You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!

Wisdom from a stranger is better than ignorance from a friend.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

You may have told me your story, but you’re still practically a stranger to me. I don’t know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past.

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

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.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.