Stranger Quotes

1490 quotes by 1112 authors

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger… — Harriet Tubman
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic. — Carrie Underwood
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share… — Eddie Vedder
Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go… — Emma Watson
Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It… — Ellen G. White
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak… — Walt Whitman
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit… — James Wolcott
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and… — George Edward Woodberry
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. — William Butler Yeats
We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with,… — Regina Brett
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. — Howard Rheingold
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How… — Lord Byron
There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you.… — Ray Bradbury
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its… — Donald Miller
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. — Stephen King
We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as… — Amy Carmichael
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. — H. L. Mencken
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. — Mitch Albom

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