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Quotes About Stranger

I am a shy man. I can't call a stranger and talk.
~ Anubhav Sinha
Just filming Season 1 was different because I had to fly back and forth, in and out. I remember the show was just so relaxed because no one knew what the show was; we used the words 'Stranger Things' on all the sides, and all the cast names. Then in Season 2, you used code names for everything, and they just had to up the security.
~ Noah Schnapp
I am a very introvert person who cannot initiate a chat with a stranger.
~ Tripti Dimri
I have a sense that the USDA and the secretary who represents the USDA has always been seen as either a stranger or adversary to the farming community and a stranger to the consuming community.
~ Mike Espy
I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't forcing them to laugh - it's involuntary, and that's when they give the most honest response.
~ Trevor Noah
And unmoored souls may drift on stranger tides Than those men know of, and be overthrown By winds that would not even stir a hair…
~ Tim Powers
It scares them because of the forced intimacy with a place that gives nothing back to a stranger, a place where the land and its weather—probably the most violent and extreme on earth—demand only one thing: humility.
~ Timothy Egan
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.
~ Timothy Radcliffe
E non dimenticare, straniero, che il sole sorge dalla nostra parte, che l'Est è l'Est, l'Ovest è l'Ovest e che questo non lo si può cambiare. [...] Il sole sorge da noi e noi un giorno domineremo il mondo perché abbiamo tutto quel che ci vuole per farlo. Abbiamo terra, abbiamo gente, abbiamo risorse. [...] Allora, straniero, ricordatelo: il futuro è qua!
~ Tiziano Terzani
We find for a moment, here and there, those amazing times where the companionship of another resists the aloneness. It can be as simple as the grace note of a stranger holding the door for you. Or it can be as deep and complex as the bond of a soul mate who understands every nuance of your struggle with the world and gives you complete love of mind and body. Yet, in the end we're still alone.
~ Todd Borg
Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?
~ Oscar Wilde
But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?
~ Oscar Wilde
For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known.
~ Owen Wister
Jeeves' eyes had taken on the look of cautious reserve which you see in those of parrots, when offered half a banana by a stranger of whose bona fides they are not convinced.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
beneficent realization that he was a stranger no longer, that he belonged
~ Pat Conroy
He assumed his stillness like a shield, impervious and impenetrable; she wondered if it hid a total stranger or someone as familiar as to her as his name.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
For here it was now, as clear as it had ever been. And, worst of all, he was aware of an impulse to tell Bruno everything, the stranger on the train who would listen, commiserate, and forget. The idea of telling Bruno began to comfort him. Bruno was not the ordinary stranger on the train by any means. He was cruel and corrupt enough himself to appreciate a story like that of his first love.
~ Patricia Highsmith
My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business.
~ Patricia Highsmith
My mistake was in speaking to him. My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Growing up with an exceptional intellect, Sienna had spent her youth feeling like a stranger in a strange land Ã¢â'¬Â¦ an alien trapped on a lonely world. She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking even the most basic understanding of the world around them, and, most troubling, lacking any curiosity or concern about it.
~ Dan Brown
Captain Ayers reported that lightning struck his house first, and then the tornado wrecked it. Since the wind blew all of his books, papers, and clothing away, the Captain "consoled himself with the thought that some poor stranger could enjoy a clean shirt and respectable literature.
~ Daniel Fitzgerald
Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.
~ Daniel Handler
Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.
~ Daniel Woodrell
I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life
~ Sophocles, Antigone