Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate
— Kathleen Turner
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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill…
— Ben Stein
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I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in…
— Donald Trump
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
— Roger Ebert
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A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare…
— Fady Joudah
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So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the…
— Camille Dungy
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When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably…
— Kelly Cutrone
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You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a…
— Jill Eikenberry
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Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of…
— J M Coetzee
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Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
— Albert Payson Terhune
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We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.
— John Spence
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It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone…
— Sarah Weddington
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Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the…
— Thomas Gray
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I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in…
— Melissa Etheridge
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Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you…
— Milton Friedman
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Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked…
— William C. Dietz
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I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel…
— Elliott Smith
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I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.
— Lana Del Rey
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate
— Chinua Achebe
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