Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

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.

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.

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.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Strangers come up to me in bars and tell me about their sex lives. I'm thinking, 'You think I can make it better somehow?'

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Stranger in a strange country.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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 greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.