Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

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

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

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 wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

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

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

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

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.

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

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally aren't great at turning down someone's advance.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

Attraction is a funny thing. Women can be beautiful and still do nothing for me. They can be stereotypically sexy and I will still pass them over. They can look innocent and it won’t interest me, have a sassy attitude and I’ll be looking elsewhere. I get bored easily and am as fickle as April weather.