A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. Votes: 6
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyToday, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Votes: 6
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. Votes: 4
Gilbert K. ChestertonScience to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. Votes: 4
Leonard SusskindA Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing. Votes: 4
Emma McLaughlinAs a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors. Votes: 4
Claire McCaskillNo good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger. Votes: 4
Joe HaldemanNever fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. Votes: 4
Arthur MillerStranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. Votes: 4
Charles DickensI think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. Votes: 4
Vladimir NabokovThere's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. Votes: 3
Jeff FeuerzeigParenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, Votes: 3
Andrew SolomonI'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me. Votes: 3
Elisabeth HasselbeckLife is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. Votes: 3
Arthur Conan DoyleNever like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me. Votes: 3
Borden ChaseReal science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. Votes: 3
Stephen HawkingYou don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. Votes: 3
Annie LeibovitzWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. Votes: 3
Mark TwainTruth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. Votes: 3
Mark TwainWalkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees... Votes: 3
Bob DylanGo, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands. Votes: 3
Leonidas IYou will forever be a stranger in a world that cannot really understand you Votes: 3
Dinesh Kumar BiranWhen one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. Votes: 3
Anne Morrow LindberghConsider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you. Votes: 3
Paramahansa YoganandaAnd thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareBlest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair. Votes: 3
Oliver GoldsmithGo tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. Votes: 3
Steven PressfieldHe who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. Votes: 3
Charles SpurgeonWriting is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. Votes: 3
Pico IyerA total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge. Votes: 3
John FowlesShe was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait. Votes: 3
George R. R. MartinThere's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger. Votes: 3
Demetri MartinThe individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal. Votes: 3
John W. GardnerLet no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend. Votes: 3
John MarsdenThe owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there. Votes: 3
George ClooneyWhat does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap? Votes: 3
Ian O'DohertyThere's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that. Votes: 3
Curtis SittenfeldNot feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire Votes: 3
ConfuciusThose who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. Votes: 3
Mark TwainQuick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. Votes: 3
Buffalo BillAs we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. Votes: 3
T. S. EliotI don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting. Votes: 3
Annie SprinkleFirst time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail Votes: 3
Ally CarterNot only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. Votes: 3
Werner HeisenbergA minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. Votes: 3
Joe AbercrombieI turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger. Votes: 3
Carlos Ruiz ZafonTruth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. Votes: 3
H. L. MenckenA stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman. Votes: 3
PythagorasUnlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. Votes: 3
Anthony BourdainLove, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe. Votes: 3
Kay Redfield JamisonVaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet. Votes: 3
Eric HofferEvery time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. Votes: 3
Germaine GreerI certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction. Votes: 3
Beau WillimonThe stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever. Votes: 3
Charles Dudley WarnerDogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation. Votes: 3
Vicki BrownIsn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love. Votes: 3
David EbershoffLiving, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. Votes: 3
Ursula K. Le GuinShe was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him. Votes: 3
Nicholas SparksRobert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter. Votes: 3
Frank Marshall DavisI am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong. Votes: 3
Georges SimenonI'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger. Votes: 3
Sarah SilvermanIn America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?" Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinHe will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger. Votes: 3
SaadiIn a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony. Votes: 3
Mordecai RichlerIf you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. Votes: 3
PocahontasFor, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Votes: 3
Georg SimmelBut please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Votes: 3
Arthur C. ClarkeNot until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. Votes: 3
Mark TwainShe smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care. Votes: 3
Paolo BacigalupiTruth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. Votes: 3
John HodgmanNo real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin. Votes: 3
Cassandra ClareLove is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you. Votes: 3
Daniel HandlerBut I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself Votes: 3
Haruki Murakami...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been. Votes: 3
Susan MinotPraise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend. Votes: 3
Simon CowellToday, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one. Votes: 3
Robert BreaultIt is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain. Votes: 3
Steven EriksonIt was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself. Votes: 3
Kenneth OppelBorn in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger. Votes: 3
Christina RossettiIf you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God. Votes: 3
Catherine BoothTry to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. Votes: 3
Zadie SmithThe Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan. Votes: 3
Greg EganThe house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door. Votes: 3
Gordon LightfootBy Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. Votes: 3
HomerMet you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends Votes: 3
Raheel SharifI don't want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I'm not interested in lips out of context. Votes: 3
Rainbow RowellThe image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see. Votes: 3
Elizabeth BibescoI'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines. Votes: 3
Clayton SnyderI get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger. Votes: 3
Mary KarrForever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Votes: 3
Albert CamusThe ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. Votes: 3
Maggie KuhnAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Votes: 3
Leo TolstoyI woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not Votes: 3
Robert A. HeinleinMy airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. Votes: 3
Richard BachI know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. Votes: 3
H. P. LovecraftI ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog. Votes: 3
John SteinbeckKnow the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger. Votes: 3
George R. R. MartinIf we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us. Votes: 3
Sorin CerinThe past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. Votes: 3
Joanne HarrisI loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be. Votes: 3
Joe BuddenWe often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us. Votes: 3
John SpenceI think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes Votes: 3
Vladimir NabokovDo you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world? Votes: 3
Gene Stratton-PorterI am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.. Votes: 3
David GemmellI came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing. Votes: 3
AurangzebUse the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Votes: 3
Kurt VonnegutI try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out. Votes: 3
Martha RaddatzClare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.
Audrey NiffeneggerI looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at. Votes: 1 Celine Dion
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 Klaus Mann
When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level. Votes: 3 Molly Friedenfeld
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! Votes: 1 Hortense Odlum
If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand. Votes: 1 Marsha Blackburn
I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime. Votes: 1 Bill Hader
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. Votes: 1 Erin Gray
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Votes: 1 Andreas Capellanus
I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family. Votes: 1 Judy Gold
Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have to say. Votes: 1 Maxwell
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. Votes: 1 Marie Corelli
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: 1 Constance Marie
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. Votes: 3 T. S. Eliot
I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers. Votes: 3 Ali Landry
If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point. Votes: 1 Doug TenNapel
And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online. Votes: 1 Jason Reitman
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: 3 Gilbert K. Chesterton
A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other. Votes: 1 Alain de Botton