Stranger Quotes

1490 quotes by 1112 authors

In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes… — Daniel Handler
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,… — W. Somerset Maugham
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is… — Andy Rooney
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger. — Saadi
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger. — George Santayana
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. — George Santayana
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he… — Chief Seattle
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. — Simone de Beauvoir
Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man. — Sophocles
The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger ... — Billy Graham
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at… — Laurence Sterne
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. — Karel Capek
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the… — Bernard Malamud
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game. — Bernard Malamud
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers. — Bernard Malamud
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God? — Bernard Malamud
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers.… — Larry Gelbart

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