The Stranger Quotes

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random strangers any given day - who's in these streets that day?

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"