Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] Votes: 3
Madame de StaelStrangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family. Votes: 3
Marijane MeakerThe first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small! Votes: 3
Noel ReddingHappiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. Votes: 2
Douglas William JerroldSometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. Votes: 2
Mary Tyler MooreThe best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. Votes: 2
Chuck PalahniukIt's sad when friends become enemies. But what's even worse is when they become strangers. Votes: 1
Hayley WilliamsMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThis world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherVirtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings. Votes: 0
James CookIn this world of memories, there's no need for strangers. -Kenshin to Kaoru Votes: 0
Nobuhiro WatsukiLove is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajTrying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic. Votes: 0
Chris HardwickNever like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me. Votes: 0
Borden ChaseThe very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... Votes: 0
Lynne Reid BanksFriends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverThat's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers. Votes: 0
Garrison KeillorYou kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukI write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinIt wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonGovernment is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money. Votes: 0
Dan McCallEither a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers. Votes: 0
Shin Kyung-sookOftentimes lies are found in those closest to you and truth in perfect strangers Votes: 0
Katrina SisowathThere are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers. Votes: 0
Richard RodriguezThe tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. Votes: 0
Baha'u'llahGreat perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Votes: 0
Victor HugoFiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance Votes: 0
Jonathan FranzenThe inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers. Votes: 0
Yevgeny ZamyatinIowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers. Votes: 0
LissieWhen strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. Votes: 0
Frank HerbertWe're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced. Votes: 0
Robert Charles WilsonIn the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultNo one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers. Votes: 0
Sarah VowellAudiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life. Votes: 0
Elaine StritchOh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers Votes: 0
Joni MitchellIf it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. Votes: 0
Dave BarryWould you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonThe improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers. Votes: 0
Keith JohnstoneI don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers. Votes: 0
Ali LandryFormal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinNow they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Votes: 0
Jane AustenFamily jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. Votes: 0
Stella BensonTruth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies. Votes: 0
Taylor BranchComedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama. Votes: 0
Andre BraugherShe wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name. Votes: 0
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieIn a sea of strangers,you've longed to know me.Your life spent sailingto my shores. Votes: 0
Lang LeavGrowing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in. Votes: 0
Maureen DalyThe loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers. Votes: 0
Richard PowersThere are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers. Votes: 0
Dennis LehaneIt's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers. Votes: 0
DrakeI've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. Votes: 0
Gwyneth PaltrowWe cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves. Votes: 0
V. S. NaipaulThe most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. Votes: 0
Edmund WhiteI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinFor strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am. Votes: 0
Brad WilliamsI want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. Votes: 0
Adrian MitchellA family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope. Votes: 0
Neal ShustermanWhen I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since. Votes: 0
Steven WrightJudging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiI try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family. Votes: 0
Judy GoldI am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive. Votes: 0
Jose CarrerasThat girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around. Votes: 0
Joan RiversAnd if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need. Votes: 0
Robert GrossetesteI don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all. Votes: 0
Dorothy Salisbury DavisReligion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneBut coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another. Votes: 0
Marie BrennanIn its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.' Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeI haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. Votes: 0
Armistead MaupinWhen I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. Votes: 0
George McGovernI don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five. Votes: 0
Becca FitzpatrickIt is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family. Votes: 0
Melina MarchettaIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. Votes: 0
Francis BaconWe can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers. Votes: 0
Bernard MalamudI can't go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers? Votes: 0
Jerry SeinfeldIt is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerI look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultWhat part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection? Votes: 0
William ShatnerYou don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.. Votes: 0
Carly SimonWe had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies. Votes: 0
John ChristopherAs you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends. Votes: 0
Joy WilliamsThe more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Votes: 0
Shirley MacLaineMy fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaI should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane. Votes: 0
Jim GaffiganI want to leave the world as I entered it: naked and crying in a room full of strangers. Votes: 0
Dana GouldOnce we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreI believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride. Votes: 0
Lana Del ReyNaked in front of strangers? I can barely be naked in front of my lovers; in front of myself. Votes: 0
ClaraI probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. Votes: 0
Eddie VedderMay I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers. Votes: 0
ThemistoclesWe feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge. Votes: 0
Cassia LeoHow easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Votes: 0
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead. Votes: 0
Clark GableWhen a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! Votes: 0
David Starr JordanOutside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she . . . Votes: 0
Robert BrowningWe know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other. Votes: 0
Russell BanksOver the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. Votes: 4 Marilyn Ferguson
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. Votes: 1 Howard Rheingold
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Votes: 4 Tennessee Williams
No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger. Votes: 2 Joe Haldeman
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. Votes: 6 Louise Jameson