Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted…
— Sherman Alexie
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Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but…
— Emma Goldman
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Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen…
— Mae West
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No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.
— Anna Akhmatova
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Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who…
— Judith Martin
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Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
— Adam Weishaupt
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
— John Hodgman
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Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she . . .
— Robert Browning
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Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed,…
— Epictetus
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What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.
— Jack Handey
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He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
— Walter Scott
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You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who…
— Sarah McLachlan
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.
— Mazo de la Roche
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Dog owners are out in all kinds of weather. They tell you it's small payment for the love their dogs bear them. Some love. If…
— Selma Diamond
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And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate is insecure, and…
— Rajneesh
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