Strangers Quotes

829 Strangers quotes by 641 unique authors

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they… — James Altucher
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in… — Edmund White
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. — Barack Obama
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them… — Barack Obama
My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by… — Stella Young
I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers. — Violette Leduc
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — Tennessee Williams
Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him. — Phaedrus
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections;… — John Britton
And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need. — Robert Grosseteste
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them… — Preston Brooks
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general… — Georg Simmel
Strangers still leave me self-conscious. — Alan Ladd
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching… — Donal Logue
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life,… — James McGreevey
I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends. — Jeanne Phillips
I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my… — Jim Edgar
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as… — Rebecca Solnit
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat… — Rebecca Solnit

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