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Quotes About Stranger

It's quiet." "Too quiet," Jason said, then laughed. "That's an ancient joke on Earth." "The more I hear about Urth the stranger it gets.
~ Jack Campbell
A tourist is an ugly human being
~ Jamaica Kincaid
A man came up the far side of the street, walking neither slow nor fast ,not turning his head, as he paused, and quite surely not noticing them; they watched him until he was out of sight, and Rufus felt, and was sure that his father felt, that though there was no harm in the man and he had as good a right as they did to be there, minding his own business, their journey was interrupted from the moment they first saw him until they saw him out of sight.
~ James Agee
I have married a stranger...only you become more familiar and yet more strange with every minute I spend in your company
~ Unknown
He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?
~ Madeline Miller
A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.
~ John Fowles
He had not recognized me, and thought I was some master he did not know.
~ John Gunther
A man travelling on a train - like you or I - to Scotland, had two or two bad eggs in his pocket - and you know - no one would sit by him.
~ John Lennon
Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.
~ Quentin S. Crisp
Sometimes I feel like we're friends, sometimes I feel like we're more than friends, but sometimes I feel like I'm just a stranger to you.
~ Unknown
But I had been a stranger to myself turned to stone for no reason I could name.
~ Madeline Miller
i do not know this man, i think. he is no one i have ever seen before.
~ Madeline Miller
He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?
~ Madeline Miller
When she first came to New York she knew no one. She arrived in a rush, like someone who trips when they enter a room.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Mange tiår senere mintes Springsteen: En tur på byen i helgen innebar alltid en fare for å bli banket opp av en vilt fremmed som ikke hadde sans for klesstilen din.
~ Unknown
Ecco, amore mio. Quell'uomo elegante con i gomiti appoggiati al bancone del caff des Tourneurs, che ti sorride, è mio padre. Sotto la terra di Francia riposano i tuoi compagni. Ogni volta che sento qualcuno esprimere le proprie idee in un mondo libero, penso a loro. Allora mi ricordo che la parola «straniero» è una delle più belle promesse del mondo, una promessa a colori, bella come la Libertà
~ Marc Levy
Alors je me souviens que le mot 'Étranger' est une des plus belles promesses du monde, une promesse en couleurs, belle comme la Liberté.
~ Marc Levy
I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
~ John Scalzi
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
~ John Steinbeck
A man with a beard, ordering a beer milk shake in a town where he wasn't known—they might call the police.
~ John Steinbeck
In a small town where everyone knows everyone it is almost impossible to believe that one of your acquaintance could murder anyone. For that reason, if the signs are not pretty strong in a particular direction, it must be some dark stranger, some wanderer from the outside world where such things happen.
~ John Steinbeck
He was a stranger to all the world, but he was not lonely.
~ John Steinbeck
He was a stranger to all the worl,but he was not lonely.
~ John Steinbeck
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
~ Saint John Chrysostom