Quotes About Stranger

It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.

It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man. His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.

In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger

Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger's heart?

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

Ives Castagnino, el músico de Palermo, se encontró una vez con una dama desconocida que le había enviado cartas durante años. Cuando la vio en la esquina, se acercó y le dijo: -Buenas noches. Soy el desengaño.

The charming king of Arilland had fallen in love at first sight. There was no question he would soon take this beautiful stranger as his bride.Fate had brought them together. Destiny. It was intoxicating.

Just some small, random act of kindness – something seemingly inconsequential. Like a smile from a stranger, or a song on the radio, or a beautiful sunset . . . or the barista giving you a love heart on your coffee.

I grew up reading about all those film-makers who were part of a group, like the new wave. It's a little stranger when it's you.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind?" -Sherm

He'd tried a life separated from God, and it was no way to live. He'd rather be a son who was chastened than a stranger who was ignored.

Wolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let alone a nation of 130 million people.-Archie Goodwin

All that are upright are not equally fitted for the work, and many that are learned, judicious, and more able to teach the riper sort, are yet less able to condescend to the ignorant, and so convincingly and fervently to rouse up the secure, as some that are below them in other qualifications; and many that are able in both respects, have a barren people; and the ablest have found by experience that God hath sometimes blessed the labours of a stranger to that which their own hath not done.

Poor world (said I) what wilt thou doTo entertain this starry stranger?Is this the best thou canst bestow?A cold, and not too cleanly, manger?Contend, ye powers of heav'n and earth,To fit a bed for this huge birth.

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

The home was familiar. But I was a stranger. There was a huge distance between me and this life that I had led. Everything was the same, yes - everything except me. The sameness in the things around me just served to illuminate the strangeness in me.

Never bear a grudge, old fellow. If a stranger starts to rile you, kill him right away. That way you get it out of your blood, so to speak, and are not poisoned.

There is a deeper voice of God, which you must learn to hear and obey in the second half of life. It will sound an awful lot like the voices of risk, of trust, of surrender, of soul, of "common sense," of destiny, of love, of an intimate stranger, of your deepest self, of soulful "Beatrice.

Every resurrection story seems to strongly affirm an ambiguous—yet certain—presence in very ordinary settings, like walking on the road to Emmaus with a stranger, roasting fish on the beach, or what appeared like a gardener to the Magdalene

Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like superman-exept with only the underwear. I wasn't sure what to say except: Put some clothes on! These children are under my protection, Bes insisted. I don't know you, I said, I never met you before today. Nonsense. You expressly asked for my attention. I didn't ask for the Speedo Patrol!

He was a stranger here too; he noticed his accent had softened and his expectations of people had hardened.

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)