Strangers Quotes

829 Strangers quotes by 641 unique authors

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
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
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
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
I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about. — Scott Stossel
The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result. — Clive Thompson
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
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
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
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
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things. — Pierre Omidyar
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
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
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
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
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our… — Martha Beck
Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist… — Luke Harding
Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on… — Alan Huffman
As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can… — Michael Leunig

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