Strangers Quotes · Page 21

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

— P. J. O'Rourke

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”

— Patricia Highsmith

“She was a stranger in a world of strangers and they were strangers she had left behind”

— Shirley Jackson

“[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers”

— Anton Chekhov

~Â¥~Lets be Strangers Again Cause I wanna Fall in love With You all Over again~Â¥~

— Anonymous

Sometimes blood isn't thicker than water and family will cross you quicker than strangers.

— Anonymous

“Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

— Pierre Omidyar

“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they…

— Anna Quindlen

You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to…

— William H. McRaven

When two people in love break up, they can't be friends. As they have hurt each other, they can't be enemies. The…

— Aldyna Threesya

“Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the…

— Abhijit Naskar

The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from…

— Glenda Jackson

Sometimes people we think we know so well are complete strangers we go our whole lives with out knowing this until one…

— Nishan Panwar

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when…

— Tablo

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I…

— Oscar Levant

I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel…

— Craig Stone

“The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other…

— G.K. Chesterton

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible…

— Henri Nouwen

“Each day we stood almost shoulder to shoulder, occupying the same space, breathing the same air, but we remained strangers.”

— M.A. Stacie

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

— George McGovern

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

— T. E. Lawrence

“I wonder if maybe death does that -- turns strangers into friends for a few minutes, or an hour, or maybe even…

— Beth Hoffman

Its better to be alone and in the middle of strangers, than to be with your close ones who makes you feel…

— Bubbly

London audiences are the most challenging around - it's a group of such diverse strangers.

— Rik Mayall

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

— Ann Brashares

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

— Simon Van Booy

I find it funny how you can be so close with someone, but as time passes by you turn into complete strangers…

— Bernajoy Vaal

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

— Jane Austen

“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world…

— Sarah Vowell

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

— Ezra Furman

Isnt it just amazing, how a person who was once just a stranger, suddenly means the world to you.

— Aalaynah Thmpson

“If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.”

— John Saul

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

— Larry David

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they…

— John C. Reilly

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

— Megan Boyle

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole…

— Alexandra Potter

To you we're friends but, we hardly ever talk now. To me we're strangers with memories

— Anonymous

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

— J. Courtney Sullivan