The Stranger Quotes

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.

We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened.

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

Women are strangers in the country of man.

Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

Love was really a high priority. You could drive up this road and there'd be open doors. You could actually walk in as a stranger and they'd invite you for a meal.

Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore.

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it’s Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger’s face into a life.

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

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 personal involvement.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.