Stranger Quotes

1490 quotes by 1112 authors

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection. — Monica Raymund
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer?… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we… — Donald C. Peattie
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank… — Judith Martin
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. — Homer
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be… — Henry David Thoreau
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need… — Elie Wiesel
I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in… — Frederick Douglass
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is… — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial. — George Bernard Shaw
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. — Robert A. Heinlein
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet. — Eric Hoffer
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
Never floss a stranger. — Joan Rivers
The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer… — Gore Vidal
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. — Robert Breault
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. — Robert Breault

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