Quotes About Stranger

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Fear makes you a stranger to yourself.

You come across a person that you dont know and they change your whole life but its your decision on if its going to make it better or worse.

Awkwardly standing there, as your friend is talking to someone you don't know.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

A stranger leaves us indifferent, and indifference does not prompt us to unkind actions.

I am alone and my heart is my own. Loneliness. Solitude. The first is a curse, the second a blessing. I would rather be a hermit than live with a stranger who would make me feel even more lonely than when I am truly alone.

We chatted for some moments, and Janet joined us, and it was not until some minutes later that I became aware of someone hating me. It is one of those odd but unmistakable sensations one experiences Sometimes on buses or at private dinners, and I looked across the table to observe a young cleric whom I had never seen before regarding me with honest hostility.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

Ich habe auf Dich gewartet, sagte die Frau. Ich habe Dich nicht gekannt, aber man kann auch auf Jemanden warten, den man noch nie gesehen hat.

The Psalmist (PS. 55:12-14) also knew the harm that came from someone very close and how much more painful that was than from a stranger.

I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

A kind word from a stranger, or unexpected encouragement from a friend, can make all the difference in the world.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds.

steer clear of any chatty, bearded weirdo who wants to tell you how terrible the future will be. Go about your business and assume that life will be okay. Without the evil influence of devils, you should be fine.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration—and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go…. Yes, one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.