Stranger Quotes
I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.
The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!
The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.
The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.
I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.
An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!
