Quotes about Stranger

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Votes: 8

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Votes: 8

Never floss with a stranger. Votes: 6

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Votes: 6

I have been a stranger in a foreign land. Votes: 6

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. Votes: 6

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. Votes: 6

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. Votes: 6

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect. Votes: 6

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Votes: 6

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too. Votes: 6

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. Votes: 6

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Votes: 6

Smile at a stranger. See what happens. Votes: 4

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Votes: 4

The man in the street is always a stranger. Votes: 4

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt. Votes: 4

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Votes: 4

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. Votes: 4

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. Votes: 4

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. Votes: 4

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. Votes: 4

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers? Votes: 4

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. Votes: 4

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. Votes: 4

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me. Votes: 4

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing. Votes: 4

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors. Votes: 4

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes. Votes: 4

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger. Votes: 4

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. Votes: 4

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. Votes: 4

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. Votes: 4

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Votes: 4

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. Votes: 4

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Votes: 4

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Votes: 4

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. Votes: 4

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing. Votes: 4

Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music. Votes: 4

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. Votes: 4

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way. Votes: 4

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. Votes: 4

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Votes: 4

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Votes: 4

Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body. Votes: 4

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger. Votes: 4

Never floss a stranger. Votes: 3

Fact is stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

Truth is stranger than fishin. Votes: 3

Youth is stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. Votes: 3

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction Votes: 3

The truth, however, was stranger still. Votes: 3

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

The Universe is stranger than we imagine! Votes: 3

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic. Votes: 3

People are strange when you're a stranger. Votes: 3

A stranger's rose is but a thorn. Votes: 3

I am a stranger to half measures. Votes: 3

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness. Votes: 3

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man. Votes: 3

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

The truth was stranger than the official fiction. Votes: 3

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat. Votes: 3

There is no stranger under the cherry tree. Votes: 3

The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Votes: 3

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose. Votes: 3

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

I´m a stranger in a strange land. Votes: 3

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.... Votes: 3

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. Votes: 3

A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange. Votes: 3

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man. Votes: 3

The future is sooner and stranger than you think. Votes: 3

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face. Votes: 3

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger ... Votes: 3

I feel like a stranger in my own world. Votes: 3

The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger. Votes: 3

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. Votes: 3

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger. Votes: 3

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy. Votes: 3

It's you my love, you who are the stranger. Votes: 3

Change is a stranger you have yet to know. Votes: 3

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself. Votes: 3

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating. Votes: 3

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God. Votes: 3

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. Votes: 3

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger. Votes: 3

I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger. Votes: 3

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. Votes: 3

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Votes: 3

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger. Votes: 3

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. Votes: 3

Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you. Votes: 3

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger. Votes: 3

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet. Votes: 3

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. Votes: 3

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room. Votes: 3

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust. Votes: 3

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger Votes: 3

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. Votes: 3

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability. Votes: 3

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. Votes: 3

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, Votes: 3

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew. Votes: 3

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident. Votes: 3

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me Votes: 3

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain. Votes: 3

Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger Votes: 3

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. Votes: 3

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. Votes: 3

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is. Votes: 3

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself. Votes: 3

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions. Votes: 3

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself. Votes: 3

I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard Votes: 3

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room. Votes: 3

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. Votes: 3

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate Votes: 3

I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me. Votes: 3

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. Votes: 3

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger. Votes: 3

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. Votes: 3

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. Votes: 3

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger. Votes: 3

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in. Votes: 3

Caring is going to the ends of the world for a stranger. Votes: 3

Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger. Votes: 3

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger. Votes: 3

But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was. Votes: 3

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger. Votes: 3

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921 Votes: 3

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. Votes: 3

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me. Votes: 3

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be. Votes: 3

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. Votes: 3

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger Votes: 3

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. Votes: 3

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. Votes: 3

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger. Votes: 3

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. Votes: 3

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. Votes: 3

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? Votes: 3

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes Votes: 3

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman. Votes: 3

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels. Votes: 3

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. Votes: 3

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. Votes: 3

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. Votes: 3

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. Votes: 3

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees... Votes: 3

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands. Votes: 3

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago. Votes: 3

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents. Votes: 3

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind. Votes: 3

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author Votes: 3

You will forever be a stranger in a world that cannot really understand you Votes: 3

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. Votes: 3

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you. Votes: 3

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies. Votes: 3

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own? Votes: 3

Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall. Votes: 3

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair. Votes: 3

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger. Votes: 3

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. Votes: 3

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. Votes: 3

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. Votes: 3

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger? Votes: 3

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge. Votes: 3

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait. Votes: 3

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself. Votes: 3

There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger. Votes: 3

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. Votes: 3

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap... Votes: 3

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. Votes: 3

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal. Votes: 3

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend. Votes: 3

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there. Votes: 3

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap? Votes: 3

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that. Votes: 3

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire Votes: 3

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. Votes: 3

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. Votes: 3

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. Votes: 3

That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong? Votes: 3

I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting. Votes: 3

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail Votes: 3

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. Votes: 3

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. Votes: 3

Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one. Votes: 3

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger. Votes: 3

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where. Votes: 3

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. Votes: 3

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman. Votes: 3

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart. Votes: 3

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. Votes: 3

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe. Votes: 3

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet. Votes: 3

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. Votes: 3

People are strange, when you are a stranger.... Faces come out in the rain, When you're strange...... Votes: 3

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya. Votes: 3

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction. Votes: 3

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever. Votes: 3

Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation. Votes: 3

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love. Votes: 3

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. Votes: 3

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. Votes: 3

She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him. Votes: 3

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter. Votes: 3

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. Votes: 3

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong. Votes: 3

I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger. Votes: 3

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering. Votes: 3

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?" Votes: 3

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger. Votes: 3

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. Votes: 3

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony. Votes: 3

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. Votes: 3

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey. Votes: 3

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Votes: 3

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved. Votes: 3

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours... Votes: 3

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. Votes: 3

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. Votes: 3

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Votes: 3

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. Votes: 3

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province. Votes: 3

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. Votes: 3

She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care. Votes: 3

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. Votes: 3

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin. Votes: 3

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you. Votes: 3

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself Votes: 3

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been. Votes: 3

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend. Votes: 3

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one. Votes: 3

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain. Votes: 3

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself. Votes: 3

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger. Votes: 3

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger. Votes: 3

When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger Votes: 3

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-. Votes: 3

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. Votes: 3

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. Votes: 3

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. Votes: 3

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God. Votes: 3

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. Votes: 3

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan. Votes: 3

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. Votes: 3

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door. Votes: 3

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. Votes: 3

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. Votes: 3

Met you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends Votes: 3

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. Votes: 3

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? Votes: 3

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me. Votes: 3

I don't want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I'm not interested in lips out of context. Votes: 3

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see. Votes: 3

I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines. Votes: 3

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger. Votes: 3

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Votes: 3

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. Votes: 3

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family. Votes: 3

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes. Votes: 3

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Votes: 3

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands. Votes: 3

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. Votes: 3

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things. Votes: 3

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Votes: 3

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not Votes: 3

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. Votes: 3

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. Votes: 3

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog. Votes: 3

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do. Votes: 3

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger. Votes: 3

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder. Votes: 3

If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us. Votes: 3

In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence Votes: 3

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. Votes: 3

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. Votes: 3

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered. Votes: 3

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. Votes: 3

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. Votes: 3

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be. Votes: 3

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life. Votes: 3

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy. Votes: 3

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. Votes: 3

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. Votes: 3

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us. Votes: 3

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic. Votes: 3

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. Votes: 3

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. Votes: 3

I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room. Votes: 3

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes Votes: 3

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world? Votes: 3

You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Votes: 3

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything. Votes: 3

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.. Votes: 3

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. Votes: 3

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings. Votes: 3

The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me. Votes: 3

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! Votes: 3

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy. Votes: 3

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know. Votes: 3

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important? Votes: 3

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. Votes: 3

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger. Votes: 3

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other... Votes: 3

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing. Votes: 3

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. Votes: 3

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall. Votes: 3

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional. Votes: 3

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Votes: 3

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall. Votes: 3

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally. Votes: 3

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts. Votes: 3

Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection Votes: 3

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. Votes: 3

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe. Votes: 3

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with. Votes: 3

I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall. Votes: 3

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare. Votes: 3

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store. Votes: 3

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead. Votes: 3

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. Votes: 3

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. Votes: 3

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. Votes: 3

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence. Votes: 3

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride. Votes: 3

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out. Votes: 3

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes. Votes: 3

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine. Votes: 3

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say. Votes: 3

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. Votes: 3

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. Votes: 3

We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened. Votes: 3

I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received. Votes: 3

I, as you may know, am no stranger to the organic courgette, but I still cannot work out who these gay footballers are. Votes: 3

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm. Votes: 3

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher. Votes: 3

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. Votes: 3

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross Votes: 3

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger! Votes: 3

One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger. Votes: 3

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that. Votes: 3

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. Votes: 3

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. Votes: 3

Couch surfing refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment. Votes: 3

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them. Votes: 3

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. Votes: 3

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. Votes: 3

Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. Votes: 3

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed. Votes: 3

I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun. Votes: 3

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. Votes: 3

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. Votes: 3

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage. Votes: 3

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. Votes: 3

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger. Votes: 3

When the sex is persuasively rendered, it tends to read autobiographically, and there are limits to my desire for immersion in a stranger's biochemistry. Votes: 3

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. Votes: 3

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. Votes: 3

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself. Votes: 3

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility Votes: 3

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking. Votes: 3

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

...his vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster. Votes: 3

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger. Votes: 3

Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment. Votes: 3

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... Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange. Votes: 3

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger. Votes: 3

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little. Votes: 3

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. Votes: 3

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place. Votes: 3

My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car. Votes: 3

Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger. Votes: 3

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway". Votes: 3

If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all. Votes: 3

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger. Votes: 3

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any. Votes: 3

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head Votes: 3

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations. Votes: 3

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had Votes: 3

How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131) Votes: 3

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times. Votes: 3

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see. Votes: 3

It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love. Votes: 3

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this? Votes: 3

Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me. Votes: 3

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There's interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head. Votes: 3

Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me~? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth. Votes: 3

I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul Votes: 3

It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me? Votes: 3

I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated. Votes: 3

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign. Votes: 3

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!' Votes: 3

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.... Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him. Votes: 3

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again. Votes: 3

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror. Votes: 3

An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. Votes: 3

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy. Votes: 3

Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly. Votes: 3

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. Votes: 3

I hate Twitter. I think it's disgusting. It's ridiculous that you as a stranger can type something to me, and I see it. Technology has gone too far... Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger. Votes: 3

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago. Votes: 3

One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound. Votes: 3

You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown. Votes: 3

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. Votes: 3

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone. Votes: 3

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger? Votes: 3

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. Votes: 3

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety. Votes: 3

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life. Votes: 3

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there? Votes: 3

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the edges of your field or pick the fallen fruit. Leave these for the poor and the stranger. Votes: 3

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here. Votes: 3

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger. Votes: 3

And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense. Votes: 3

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy) Votes: 3

None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord. Votes: 3

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger. Votes: 3

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes? Votes: 3

One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus. Votes: 3

I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision. Votes: 3

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards. Votes: 3

If you do not know you are in danger, you are that danger. You do not know me, but I come in peace; if you think that is strange, then you are the stranger. Votes: 3

Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger. Votes: 3

I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger. Votes: 3

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.' Votes: 3

Think of God not as a word, or a stranger, or as someone on high, waiting to judge and punish you. Think of Him as you would want to be thought of if you were God. Votes: 3

I don't care what a lot of anonymous strangers think about restaurants. Votes: 2

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. Votes: 2

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. Votes: 2

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Votes: 2

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.' Votes: 2

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. Votes: 2

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. Votes: 2