Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers come…
— Charlie LeDuff
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Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.
— Megan Boyle
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Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive…
— Betsey Johnson
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It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer…
— Paul Strand
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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream…
— Angela Carter
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Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you…
— Michael Douglas
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The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.
— Barack Obama
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Strangers are what friends are made of.
— Cullen Hightower
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I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.
— John W. Gardner
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Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force…
— Dave Barry
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Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,'…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of…
— Dalai Lama
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Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to.…
— Walter Kirn
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No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
— Siobhan Fahey
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One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.
— Peter Kay
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Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather,…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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