Strangers Quotes

829 Strangers quotes by 641 unique authors

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove
I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from… — Gloria Estefan
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. — Harvey Fierstein
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together. — Harvey Fierstein
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us… — Sydney J. Harris
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships… — Reid Hoffman
It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why… — Christopher Hitchens
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. — Victor Hugo
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. — Douglas William Jerrold
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. — Soren Kierkegaard
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. — Alan King
Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and… — Ashton Kutcher
What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going… — Denis Leary
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and… — David Letterman
By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale… — Simon Mainwaring
Good things happen when you meet strangers. — Yo-Yo Ma
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. — Shirley MacLaine
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. — Shirley MacLaine

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