Stranger Quotes

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I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. — Julian Schnabel
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend,… — Denis Diderot
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and… — Henri Nouwen
Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved. — Marie Howe
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted… — Dennis Nurkse
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one… — Dennis Nurkse
Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful. — Alcuin
There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at… — Washington Irving
The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and… — Heber J. Grant
...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard &… — Brad Paisley
Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger… — Lucien Bourjeily
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male… — Camille Paglia
Never take candy from strangers. — Rita Rudner
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend… — Andrew Solomon
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, — Andrew Solomon
I am constantly concernedÂ about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing orÂ having what I say misinterpreted and bringing reproach… — Billy Graham
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web… — Henry Green
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is… — Abraham Lincoln
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. — Quintilian
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity,… — Albert Schweitzer

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