Stranger Quotes

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That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to beâ€”or to be indistinguishable fromâ€”self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing… — Neal Stephenson
Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we… — Elizabeth Berg
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then… — Chuck Palahniuk
Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and… — Anne Rice
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at themâ€”and by laughing at them destroy them? For… — Mark Twain
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in… — Madeleine L'Engle
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. — Edmund White
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you… — C.S. Lewis
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can… — Christopher Paul Curtis
We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to… — Alton Brown
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. — Jane Austen
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are… — Libba Bray
When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and… — Joseph Fielding Smith
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be. — Dean Koontz
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the… — Alice Hoffman
When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment can open in… — John O'Donohue

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