Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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

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

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 family you haven't recognize yet

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 are an endangered species.

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.

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

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

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 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 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 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 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 land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

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

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

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

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

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

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

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 nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.