Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on…
— R.K. Narayan
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
— V.S. Naipaul
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Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger
— Viola Spolin
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
— Euripides
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for…
— Herman Melville
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Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction
— Carol Alt
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
— William Randolph Hearst
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
— Chinua Achebe
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One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a…
— Francis Chan
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Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this…
— J. Vernon McGee
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of…
— Henri Poincare
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for…
— Rita Rudner
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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression…
— Mark Twain
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from…
— R. D. Laing
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Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A…
— Henry Van Dyke
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This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day…
— Jim Sinclair
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Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.
— Ian Shoales
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You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up…
— Sasha Azevedo
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Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger's face into a life.
— Manohla Dargis
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