Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

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better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.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 stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

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

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

Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

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.

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

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.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.