Quotes About Stranger

Labradors [are] lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning.

The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home.

Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.

A stranger full of secrets.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

They played that wild, strange, ancient game of morra, which with its antics, its vociferation, its twinkling, dazzling, ceaseless movement of the fingers, so utterly bewilders the stranger who watches it. They looked to mo like maniacs. But to be sure, if dogs ruled in the world they would very often raise the cries of " Rabies!" against very many human actions and grimaces.

He, the stranger, was speaking to her brother Jesse. The sun was at his back and it shone around him like a golden halo. Even from the distance she could see that he was handsome in a curious way. He was finely dressed and worthily shod. Real pince-nez spectacles of circular glass were perched upon his nose. And his trim form and deignful expression gave him a princely air. Meggie's eyes widened. Her heart beat faster and the blood sped through her veins. A prince. Her prince.

How many more times would I have embraced him that night, how many more times would I have kissed him, if I had known the name of that stranger lover who was already in Montreal, who had already bought his stadium ticket from a scalper for the 5,000 tomorrow. That implacable lover who was going to turn Billy's eyes away from me forever.

Sinuous and beautiful fortune-tellers, stagily coifed and ear-ringed and flounced in tiers of yellow and magenta and apple-green, perfunctorily shuffled their cards and proffered them in dog-eared fans as they strolled through the crowds, laying soft-voiced and unrelenting siege to every stranger they met.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

It was unsettling to imagine it alone on the bench without a film, unable to record its own passage into the hands of a stranger.

Beneath the noise, below the din, I hear a voice, it's whispering, "In science and in medicine, "I was a stranger, you took me in."

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

The stranger's way of looking at things, the eye of a man who does not recognize , who is beyond this world, the eye as frontier between being & non-being — belongs to the thinker. It is also the eye of a dying man, a man losing recognition.

The woman smiles and says, "Hey," the standard Norwegian greeting. I "Hey" back, but then she says a whole sentence and I am force to explain, in English, that I have no idea what she is saying. I feel like a fraud, and I see a change in the focus of her eyes. I am a stranger, and even if I am no less welcome, I am still a stranger.

You looked at me like I broke your heart, yet I didn't know you at all.

Gya!! Stay away from me, weirdo! I'll press the burglar alarm!

I find myself thinking, and not for the first time, just how useful wilderness must be when it comes to burying a troublesome relative, or a complete stranger.

October, many crossing the street to avoid him

and they're all analogue signals, which is even stranger.

The entire city was his hunting ground. In the summer months, dressed in a blazer and wearing his straw hat at a jaunty angle, he would regularly stroll along under the arches, and then along the pier. Next he would ride on the Volks Railway, where in the cramped intimacy of its hard seats he liked to talk to strangers, telling them this was the world's oldest still-running electric train, and boring them with facts about it.

And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.