The Stranger Quotes

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

I love a book that makes me ask questions about what I think or how I see the world or how I feel, so I hope that 'Goodbye, Stranger' is that kind of book for some people.

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange.

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

we walk the plank with strangers.

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.