Quotes About Stranger

If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?

The truth may well turn out to be stranger than we think," says Simon. "It may be that much of what we are accustomed to describe as evil, and evil freely chosen, is instead an illness due to some lesion of the nervous system, and that the Devil himself is simply a malformation of the cerebrum.

That Guy, she warned him, is a real weirdo. And you're taking a chance leaving him with your parents. You might be surprised to wake up some morning to learn they have been killed.

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

It's obvious that I'm a stranger to her; she doesn't even know what I think about the most ordinary things.

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

It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

a car that wasn't familiar to her.

It was the "Stranger in Paradise" melody, and the back-of-the-room boys always crooned, "Take my hand, I'm a strange-looking parasite..." till Mr. Budd tapped his baton against his music stand.

At that moment, a suite of marketing messages must begin to be applied. The goal is to teach, cajole, and encourage this stranger to become a friend. And once she becomes a friend, to apply enough focused marketing to create a customer.

if you waited twenty-six years to have sex, you're probably not going to copulate with a stranger.

I am surrounded by people who trust me to be a respectful stranger

I am surrounded by people who trust me to be a respectful stranger. Am I trustworthy? Are any of us trustworthy? I hope so.

You know, bud, I don't know you from Adam, but that's my baby sister you're hanging on to. So I'm thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)

true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

It was a mystery to Roger how someone he knew so well could be such an impervious, impenetrable stranger.

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

Japan: A stranger hands you a stone and asks you to hold it. Puzzled, you take it. The stone grows. And grows until you are crushed

A great friendship is like a work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.

She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time, to whom she was oblig'd to be accountable for her Actions,

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

Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.

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

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