Quotes About Stranger

In the scene I had just witnessed, that stranger could have been any person of the night, a figure with no face and no name. In Carax's novel, that figure was the devil.

Like all children of that era, they had been diligently warned about strange men, but it never crossed their young minds to fear a woman.

I never heard of the person on this return address. Calvin Vinesett. What a name. He's probably selling something, like all our other mail is. The expensive envelope is a sales trick.

A stranger in a small community is always an object of keen interest and he had seen more than one curtain twitch as he passed by.

a complete stranger, and yet grief is no respecter of persons.

was just about to invite you to dance," came the unexpected reply. The orchestra was switching tempos and Nancy nodded. She followed the stranger to the center of the floor where several other couples were trying unsuccessfully to keep from bumping into each other. "I don't know your name," the young detective said as the two began to dance.

Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and present it to someone special, for it's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a very long time.

Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence.

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

What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?" "Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel's The Red Cavalry and Camus's The Stranger.

Well -- I'm an outsider to the end of my days!

In general the cows were milked as they presented themselves, without fancy or choice. But certain cows will show a fondness for a particular pair of hands, sometimes carrying this predilection so far as to refuse to stand at all except to their favourite, the pail of a stranger being unceremoniously kicked over.

LXXXI ABBOT PASTOR was asked by a certain brother: How should I conduct myself in the place where I live? The elder replied: Be as cautious as a stranger; wherever you may be, do not desire your word to have power before you, and you will have rest.

Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time. We have to come to the end of a long journey and see that the stranger we meet there is no other than ourselves—which is the same as saying that we find Christ in him. For if the Lord is risen, as He said, He is actually or potentially alive in every man.

A deep breath as I worked the cobwebs out, then I stood. Reality came crashing home. Someone had attacked me. Here. On Morris Island. Miles from anywhere a stranger should be. Facts molded into conclusions. I'd been targeted. There was no other reasonable explanation. Not for an attack on this deserted beach, at this late hour. Not out here in the middle of nowhere.

the departing crowd. She giggled and jerked her thumb to where her mother and the stranger stood. 'Look at that! They're holdin' hands! Tell you what, May, we'll have a bet. I bet you ten bob our mam gets herself a feller before we go to university.' 'You're on, April

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

Twilight is the hour I love,' he told her, 'the hour where nothing is quite itself, all things teetering at the edges of their names. Here I can be alone and a stranger to myself.

Twilight is the hour i love" he told her "the hour where nothing is quite itself, all things teetering at the edges of their names. Here I can be alone and a stranger to myself

In fact, the ongoing and deepening contrast between the Jesus of the Gospels and popular cultural misconfigurations is the principal reason I have written this book. Jesus is far more beautiful than many have imagined. It all has to do with love, but not just any kind of love, but with holy love." Jesus the Stranger: The Man from Galilee and the Light of the World, p. xviii.

It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own "existence" and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

The person who recognizes the strategy of Too Many Details sees the forest while simultaneously being able to see the few trees that really matter. When approached by a stranger while walking on some city street at night, no matter how engaging he might be, you must never lose sight of the context: He is a stranger who approached you. A good exercise is to occasionally remind yourself of where you are and what your relationship is to the people around you.

You try almost dying, being chased, then hopping in a car with a complete (horny) stranger.

If you're thinking they were acting terribly nonchalant about discovering a stranger behind the living room couch, you've never been to a collegiate keg party.