Strangers Quotes
829 Strangers quotes by 641 unique authors
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At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred,…
— Susan Sarandon
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School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm…
— John Taylor Gatto
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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
— David Starr Jordan
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in…
— Barry Humphries
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I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to…
— Warren Buffett
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Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
— Helena Bonham Carter
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If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your…
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though…
— William Penn
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I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.
— Andrew Dominik
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Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
— Nouriel Roubini
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A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake…
— Alain de Botton
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I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.
— Stephanie Beatriz
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As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about…
— William Finnegan
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well…
— Bayard Taylor
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I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.
— Scott Stossel
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The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.
— Clive Thompson
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When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics,…
— Nelson Mandela
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My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material…
— Andy Behrman
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I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in…
— Sarah Kay
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers;…
— Alice Morse Earle
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
— Pierre Omidyar
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In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television…
— Craig Brown
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The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married…
— Russell Smith
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In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive…
— Virginia Postrel
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Our eyes and brains pretty consistently like some human forms better than others. Shown photos of strangers, even babies look longer at the faces adults…
— Virginia Postrel
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