Strangers Quotes
829 quotes by 682 authors
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As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers…
— Judy Biggert
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When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as…
— Tom Glazer
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts…
— Abraham Maslow
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they…
— Randall Munroe
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We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on…
— Joseph Glanvill
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Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength,…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have…
— John Flavel
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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I…
— Mary Schmich
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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
— Stella Benson
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Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world
— Confucius
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It's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers.
— Drake
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great…
— Tecumseh
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Angel away yeah strange in a way Maybe that is why I chase strangers away
— Nicki Minaj
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I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help…
— Cyril Connolly
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
— Bill Moyers
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I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if…
— Mark Twain
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In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose…
— Lionel Shriver
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can…
— Paul Auster
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