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Quotes About Strangers

Don't open the door to strangers," said her dad. "Unless they're selling something. Then open the door and see if I'd like it. If I'd like it, buy it for me. But nothing cheap. I have standards. Nothing too expensive, either. My standards aren't that high.
~ Derek Landy
At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.
~ Luigina Sgarro
I had the worst feeling, when I hung up, that I had missed the purpose of our conversation, that we both had. We had been apart for so long and no longer knew how to speak, other than as strangers. How are you feeling? we said, but what we meant was, Where are you? who are you now? Are you still in there?
~ Jennifer Gilmore
I bet you think things through, right? Accept candy from strangers and get into vans with a sign that reads free Kittens?
~ Jennifer L. Armentrout
I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear I've known That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own All I've sown was a song But maybe I was wrong
~ Emily Saliers
Remember," she says on the way to the white car, "we don't hug strangers. Even nice ones." "Why not?" "We just don't, we save our hugs for people we love." "I love that boy Walker." "Jack, you never saw him before in your life.
~ Emma Donoghue
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers and by ignorant persons.
~ Epictetus
sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
All this kind of relationship amounts to is the well?oiled relationship between two persons who remain strangers all their lives, who never arrive at a "central relationship," but who treat each other with courtesy and who attempt to make each other feel better.
~ Erich Fromm
From the time she was a little biddy thing I always told her: Melinda, don't talk to strangers. But she loved everyone. She was a real good girl.
~ Amanda Kyle Williams
The Epistle to the Hebrews (13:2) warns, "Don't neglect to open up your homes to guests, because by doing this some have been hosts to angels without knowing it.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
He was more than ever certain that he had a vague romantic destiny. Little wonder that when he looked at strangers on the street now, his unquiet yearning for rescue went out to them.
~ Andrew Holleran
He fell in love with people he did not know how to meet.
~ Andrew Holleran
I get recognised by complete strangers in pubs, misrecognised by them and I dont have to work every weekend of my life anymore which is nice.
~ Paul Sinha
I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.
~ Jenji Kohan
Sharing cabs with strangers is weird.
~ Andrew Schulz
Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.
~ Donal Logue
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
~ Dan Stevens
The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.
~ Matteo Salvini
The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.
~ Colin Firth
I am a really passive person to begin with so I have written a lot of pretty crappy songs with strangers because I let it go in a direction that I didn't feel it should have and I didn't know them well enough to speak up.
~ Martie Maguire
Whether you're raising money for a cause, a personal need, or a project, most crowdfunding sites center on you hitting up people you already know. These sites make it easier to tap your social network for funds, but only the most compelling cases inspire support from strangers.
~ Charles Best
As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.
~ Michael Leunig
It is easy to tell a stranger's story; I didn't know if I had the guts to tell my own.
~ Rick Bragg