Quotes About Stranger

Who are you, O shipwrecked stranger? Leontichos found your corpse on the beach, buried you in this grave and cried thinking of his own hazardous life. For he knows no rest: he too roams over the sea like a gull.

You are like tango music itself, Kapka.' Julio says, catching his breath. 'You're the universal woman- wherever you go, you will always be a local and a stranger at the same time.

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

There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.

but he conceived that the perfection of human society required that a man should enter a drawing-room where he was a total stranger, and place himself on the hearth-rug, his back to the fire, with an air of expectant benevolence, without curiosity, much as though he had dropped in at a charity concert, kindly disposed to applaud the performers and to overlook mistakes

An unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred.

Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.

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.

The stranger's presence alerts him to his mother's absence. For Spitz, this behavioral reaction signaled the attainment of psychological capacities that make a singular, personal attachment possible. "There is no love until the loved one can be distinguished from all others" (1965

Then a stranger—a Dutchman who has just arrived—catches my vision, jumps into my circle, and we dance a dance as fierce as I have ever danced before. If my back breaks, if I drop dead, it doesn't matter. I am twenty-four. I am healthy. I am whole.

According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself.

Remember that when you say 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word.

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

I didn't know Ian Smith myself!

Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read him with a great passion and broke with my life, left my job in the asylum, left France: I had the feeling I had been trapped. Through Nietzsche, I had become a stranger to all that.

He looked to be a little over forty. Mouth somehow twisted. Clean-shaven. Dark-haired. Right eye black, left -for some reason- green. Dark eyebrows, but one higher than the other. In short, a foreigner.

Tu nieznajomy uprzejmie zdj?? beret i pisarzom nie pozostawa?o nic innego, jak wsta? i uk?oni? si?.

A pan zgodziÅ' siÄ™ z kolegÄ…? - zainteresowaÅ' siÄ™ nieznajomy i odwróciÅ' siÄ™ w prawo, do Bezdomnego. -Na sto procent! - potwierdziÅ' poeta, który lubiÅ' wyra?a? siÄ™ zawile i metaforycznie.

Procurator obserwowa? przybysza oczami chciwymi i nieco wystraszonymi. Tak si? patrzy na kogo?, o kim wiele si? s?ysza?o, o kim wiele si? rozmy?la?o, gdy ten kto? wreszcie si? zjawia.

Chewing a forkful of caviar, Styopa managed to squeeze out the words: And you?...have a bite? Thank you, I never do, answered the stranger and poured a second drink. They uncovered the saucepan and found that it contained sausages with tomato sauce. (86)