The Stranger Quotes

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?

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.

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

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

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.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

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.

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.

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

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

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

I count on the kindness of strangers.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.