Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

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

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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'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?

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

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.

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 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.

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 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?

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

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.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

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

Love was really a high priority. You could drive up this road and there'd be open doors. You could actually walk in as a stranger and they'd invite you for a meal.

Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it’s Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger’s face into a life.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.

Naked in front of strangers? I can barely be naked in front of my lovers; in front of myself.

Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.

Never take candy from strangers.