Strangers Quotes
829 Strangers quotes by 641 unique authors
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In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing…
— Louis de Bernieres
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If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get…
— Michael Ondaatje
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For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
— Alexandra Potter
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A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
— Unknown Author
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I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
— August Wilson
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There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that…
— Nicole Krauss
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to…
— Ann Brashares
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I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
— Mark Haddon
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Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich…
— A.L. Kennedy
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A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and…
— Robert Muchamore
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I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to ensure that I…
— Melina Marchetta
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Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor…
— Frederick Douglass
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do…
— Demetri Martin
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In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends
— Kobayashi Issa
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They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I…
— Lauren Kate
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Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice…
— Suzanne Collins
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The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible…
— Gregory David Roberts
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While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and…
— Nicholas Sparks
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There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and…
— Taylor Swift
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
— Haruki Murakami
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Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our…
— Daniel Handler
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