Stranger Quotes · Page 26

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

— Ally Carter

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too…

— Arthur Symons

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a…

— Albert Camus

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

— Georg Simmel

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

— Arthur Miller

“I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either.”

— Charles Fort

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

— Mary McCarthy

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at…

— Sherman Alexie

“a total stranger one black day knocked living the hell out of me- who found forgiveness hard because my(as it happened)self he…

— e.e. cummings

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most…

— George Saunders

“It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of…

— Jodi Picoult

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

“one day, after waiting at the labor pool unsuccessfully for hours for a job to open up, he was approached by a…

— Robert Thornhill

Having some form of structure to process and manage grief collectively surely helps: as someone put it to me, grief is like…

— Owen Jones

“The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the…

— H.G. Wells

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it…

— Luigi Russolo

What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Perhaps he’d recently lost some bulk. But there was plenty of him remaining, and all of it was lean and hard. His…

— Tessa Dare

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or…

— Honore de Balzac

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care…

— Kenneth Grahame

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment -…

— Carrie Hamilton

There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about…

— Taylor Swift

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe…

— Judith Martin

I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is…

— Robin Beth Schaer

“Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your…

— Kate Bolick

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

— Ali Landry

“Look, buddy, I see a stranger show up acting odd, then giving me attitude, I start thinking about breaking something other than…

— David E. Manuel

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

— Anonymous

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Robert Breault

“This is a conversation. Holy shit, I’m having a conversation with the stranger I’ve had a crush on for months.”

— Christina Lauren

Before Stranger Things, before I was able to travel around the world, I lived in my own world in small-town Carmel, New…

— Caleb McLaughlin

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of…

— Quintilian

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

— Eric Hoffer

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

— Terence Tao

I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was…

— Rachel Skarsten

“I give up. In the war for my parents’ approval, I’d lost to a complete stranger.”

— Cora Carmack

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

— Margaret Fuller

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

— Spalding Gray

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

— Dasha Zhukova