Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

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

... 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

. . . 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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

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 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.