[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers.… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty… — Edith Pattou Copy Share Image
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself,… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I think we're going to care more about Americans than Africans. I don't think that's ever going to go away, and I… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“There is little joy in those first moments of recognition- for the reality is that most encounters of such depth, most first… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Hooking up with a tall, dark stranger in a bar wasn't anywhere on her to do-do list, but as she eyed those… — Ophelia London Copy Share Image
I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids.… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Some people get very successful for something they're very cynical about - like Alec Guinness in 'Star Wars.' He thought it was… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I'll tell ya, I'm a pro-Second Amendment person, I'm a gun owner. I went to combat with a 9 millimeter strapped to… — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than someone you know. Why is that?” “Probably because a stranger sees us the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure who I was most scared of at the moment. The stranger I was learning about too quickly, or the… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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