Stranger Quotes

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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I… — Ernst Mayr
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. — Rumi
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?" — Benjamin Franklin
Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just… — Jack Welch
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the feeling. When the… — Michela Wrong
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident. — Walter Goodman
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more… — Sarah Miles
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead,… — Amos Oz
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had… — Marie Corelli
Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same.… — Michael Shaara
...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands… — Truman Capote
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island… — Rebecca Solnit
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around,… — Erin Gray
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. — George Washington
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. — James Boswell
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure. — Epicurus
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell

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