Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

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

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

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

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

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

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

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

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

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 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 stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

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

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.