Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or…
— Melina Marchetta
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Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.
— George R. R. Martin
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That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?
— Franny Billingsley
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It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.
— Bob Dylan
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
— Richard Bach
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You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a…
— Frank McCourt
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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition…
— Albert Camus
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Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
— Jack Kerouac
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Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.
— Gayle Forman
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She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
— George R. R. Martin
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Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized…
— Gerald Durrell
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It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.
— Hayley Williams
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So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any…
— Michael Ondaatje
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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give…
— Jeffrey Gitomer
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Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of…
— Melina Marchetta
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