Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
— Juan Goytisolo
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I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I…
— Sharon Horgan
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I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love…
— Louise Jameson
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Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.
— Kathryn Minshew
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I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a…
— Darryl Worley
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You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in…
— Dolly Parton
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The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion -…
— Henry Steele Commager
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Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?
— Sheryl Crow
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I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many…
— Ryan Kwanten
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The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking.…
— Matthew Perry
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
— George McGovern
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But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.
— Marie Brennan
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The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
— Joanne Harris
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The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and…
— Eudora Welty
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The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful…
— Karen Kingsbury
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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.
— Aldus Manutius
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Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.
— Chris Hardwick
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Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.
— Terence Tao
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A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange.
— Robert Mandel
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One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
— Ogden Nash
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