Strangers Quotes

829 quotes by 641 authors

Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family and close friends… — Melinda Blau
In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. — Unknown Author
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should… — Roger Ebert
To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself.… — Tahir Shah
It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's… — Donella Meadows
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted… — Sherman Alexie
Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but… — Emma Goldman
Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen… — Mae West
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who… — Judith Martin
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt
Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she . . . — Robert Browning
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed,… — Epictetus
You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who… — Sarah McLachlan
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other… — Jonathan Safran Foer
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate is insecure, and… — Rajneesh
BeyoncÃ© and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. — Clive James
Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers;… — Otto von Bismarck
My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe a human being… — Jeffrey Dahmer
A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts. — Robert Hurt

Who Wrote These Strangers Quotes

641 authors contributed a total of 829 Strangers Quotes, led by these top contributors: