Strangers Quotes

829 quotes by 641 authors

People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers… — John Fowles
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never… — Stanley Hauerwas
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and… — Henri Nouwen
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted… — Dennis Nurkse
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one… — Dennis Nurkse
Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful. — Alcuin
...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard &… — Brad Paisley
Never take candy from strangers. — Rita Rudner
I am constantly concernedÂ about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing orÂ having what I say misinterpreted and bringing reproach… — Billy Graham
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web… — Henry Green
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is… — Abraham Lincoln
What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to… — John Flavel
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends — Cesare Pavese
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers. — Richard Rodriguez
Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one… — Woody Allen
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,… — Richard Preston
If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and… — Andrew Sullivan
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. — Adrian Mitchell
Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we donâ€™t empathize with distant strangers, their lives… — Paul Bloom
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to… — Simon Winchester

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