Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

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.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

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.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally aren't great at turning down someone's advance.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.

Youth is stranger than fiction.

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

All Ways listen to strangers; They may tell you when a spider is on your shoulder." donnie harold harris

And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd be as good, but I wouldn't, if I could. For the few that help deserve, have no need, or not the nerve, help from strangers to accept, plus from mine a few have wept. Wept from joy, or from despair, or just from my vengeful stare. Ways I have, to look at stupid, make them see I am not Cupid. Make them see they are in error, for of truth I am a bearer. Most decide I'm just a bear, mauling at them, - like I care.

And she called him a stranger. Whose name still echoed in her mind like a war cry. Who had seen each bit of her naked soul and knew how scarred her soul is. Whose reflection still stood, smiling at her every time she stood in front of the mirror.

Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...

Becoming" a stranger seems easier to maintain than "being" a stranger... The former can be sustained forever and can be resumed time and again... The latter needs just a smile or a handshake or a word of recognition to break...

A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, then with the truth, he haunts.