Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
A friend is not a coincidence in our life. They were a stranger meant to come into our life to bring us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
C’mon, friend. It’s two on one. You sure don’t look like you’re up to those odds. (Stranger) You can’t be talking to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“You think it’s okay to deliver dead flowers?” She turns and laughs. “I’ve had stranger requests.” I flinch. Like what? I find… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or… — Rosie Fellner Copy Share Image
On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“10. The stranger’s breath also came out in small white clouds. The man was clearly a lot fitter than his charges and… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger. — Lindsey Stewart Copy Share Image
“What will it be, stranger?" "Anything but a Canadian Club" replies the seal.” — Various Copy Share Image
It's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers. — Drake Copy Share Image
“It's easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality. It's a simple thing, to… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it. — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others. — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people… — Christofer Drew Copy Share Image
Amazing how someone you were once so close to, can become such a stranger in the blink of an eye... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
