The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I am never a stranger anywhere I go, and it gives me the opportunity to choose my habitat by literally throwing a… — Dean Haglund Copy Share Image
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
You can have your opinions, and you can share them with your friends, but why would you go online to tell a… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let… — Darryl Worley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Now we know more about it and we teach our children not to get into cars with strangers but back then it… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to… — John Green Copy Share Image
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
