Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and…
— Sarah Dessen
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In this world of memories, there's no need for strangers. -Kenshin to Kaoru
— Nobuhiro Watsuki
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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
— Mark Twain
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It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.
— David Sedaris
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
— Jodi Picoult
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Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who…
— Scott Adams
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
— Werner Heisenberg
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I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a…
— Annie Dillard
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All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured…
— Salman Rushdie
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Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it. And you know…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not…
— Terry Pratchett
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Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth,…
— Karen Armstrong
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It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see…
— Barack Obama
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Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came…
— Roberto Bolano
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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through.…
— Edith Pattou
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Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,…
— Markus Zusak
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He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really…
— Tad Williams
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