Stranger Quotes

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How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. — Harvey Fierstein
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together. — Harvey Fierstein
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes… — Naomie Harris
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us… — Sydney J. Harris
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger… — Katherine Heigl
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships… — Reid Hoffman
It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why… — Christopher Hitchens
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. — Eric Hoffer
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. — Victor Hugo
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. — Douglas William Jerrold
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. — Soren Kierkegaard
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. — Alan King
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver
Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and… — Ashton Kutcher
What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going… — Denis Leary
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. — Annie Leibovitz
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and… — David Letterman
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches… — Haniel Long
Smile at a stranger. See what happens. — Patti LuPone

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