Strangers Quotes
829 Strangers quotes by 641 unique authors
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s…
— John Green
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With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without…
— Jared Diamond
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I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and…
— George R. R. Martin
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork.…
— Tennessee Williams
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there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.
— David Sedaris
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Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.
— Corey Taylor
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You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or…
— Melina Marchetta
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Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all…
— Jonathan Carroll
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You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a…
— Frank McCourt
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Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.
— Gayle Forman
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Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized…
— Gerald Durrell
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It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.
— Hayley Williams
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So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of…
— Melina Marchetta
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There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.
— Dennis Lehane
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There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were…
— Jane Austen
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Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.
— Paulo Coelho
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Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.
— Stephen King
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It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.
— Melina Marchetta
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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster…
— Thomas Harris
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