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Quotes About Strangers

To strangers and the press, he never spoke of his father as anything but a fine, upstanding figure.
~ Ron Chernow
He learned to cultivate a secretive style and a defiant attitude toward strangers.
~ Ron Chernow
Perhaps out of a self-protective instinct, Bill taught his children to be wary of strangers and even of himself.
~ Ron Chernow
What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain themselves to people they didn't know.
~ Ry? Murakami
Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.
~ Scott Adams
Argentini sono stranieri allo Stato Orientale del pari che gli uomini del Chili o dell'Inghilterra.
~ Alexandre Dumas
But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.
~ Ali Smith
Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based on nothing but the truth, but who come back fresh from marvellous escapes and take up their knives and forks, with humility and good manners, prepared to live happily ever after -- like them, dazed and powerful with secrets, I never said a word
~ Alice Munro
Y Doree se preguntó por qué tenía que importarle lo que Maggie pensara. Maggie era una extraña, ni siquiera se sentía a gusto con ella. Fue Lloyd quien lo dijo, y tenía razón.
~ Alice Munro
Everything in her wanted to run -fly back to California, back to her quiet existence working among strangers. Hiding out in the folds of tree trunks and tropical petals, tucked away safely among so many foreign plants and people.
~ Alice Sebold
If there ever was a place where one could start again, it was Manhattan. Move a block, and your enemies become your friends. Move ten blocks and you might never see anyone you knew again.
~ Ami McKay
He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another!
~ Joe Abercrombie
I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.
~ Joe Queenan
Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.
~ Andy Warhol
You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say: 'It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious'—that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.
~ E.M. Forster
There was no common topic. Mrs. Wilcox, whose life had been spent in the service of husband and sons, had little to say to strangers who had never shared it, and whose age was half her own. Clever talk alarmed her, and withered her delicate imaginings; it was the social counterpart of a motor-car, all jerks, and she was a wisp of hay, a flower.
~ E.M. Forster
The potter's field, to bury strangers in.
~ Anonymous
Let brotherly love continue.Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
~ Anonymous
A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.
~ Anthon St Maarten
Isn't that how marriage works? The days go by and you settle into a routine and piece by piece everything is taken away from you until there are two complete strangers sitting in the same room.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Stilgar put a hand on Idaho's shoulder. "All men are interlopers, old friend.
~ Frank Herbert
Lost among these entirely strange people.
~ Franz Kafka
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~ Franz Kafka
If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.
~ Michael Leunig