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Quotes About Strangers

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costs And benefits of loving those who don't love Strangers. After all, I'm often the odd one— The strangest stranger—in any field or room. He was weird will be carved into my tomb.
~ Sherman Alexie
I want all kinds of strangers to love me. The Indian horses screamed.
~ Sherman Alexie
Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.
~ Melina Marchetta
Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.
~ Stephen King
As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites. That troubles me. People like that hear bad news from across the world, and they burst into wails and tears as though their own children have just been run over by a bus. To me, they don't seem very different from actors and actresses—they are able to burst into tears on command, but does it really mean anything?
~ John Elder Robison
As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.
~ John Elder Robison
The Beautiful Strangers ... Poets are cosmic ... James Kirkup
~ John Foster
They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.
~ John Jakes
Es difícil reconocer una cara conocida entre un grupo de desconocidos cuando no se espera
~ John Katzenbach
And now I will tell you. It is nearly two years ago since I have known Mr. Browning. Mr. Kenyon wished to bring him to see me five years ago, as one of the lions of London who roared the gentlest and was best worth my knowing; but I refused then, in my blind dislike to seeing strangers.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rien took her and, reminding herself that falling for strangers simply because they looked like Perceval was stupid. Although Perceval would never want her, and wouldn't holding on be stupider, still?
~ Elizabeth Bear
The full story was not for strangers in bars.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Then, too, the Ju/wa men had an inherent, almost natural bravery that everyone took entirely for granted. They hunted the world's most dangerous game with quarter-ounce arrows, they stood off lions and dealt with strangers, all without a shred of the bravado or machismo that so characterizes the men of other societies, including ours. The Ju/wa men simply did what men do without making anything of it, and didn't even think of themselves as brave.
~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
He was talking to strangers, hoping they would absolve him. They are the only ones who ever can.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.
~ Elizabeth Strout
have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.
~ Elizabeth Strout
You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
~ Aryn Kyle
The whole wide world was just a big pile of strangers, thinking all the time about everything they were missing.
~ Aryn Kyle
Those tormented by the pain of anger, Never know tranquillity of mind— Strangers they will be to every pleasure; They will neither sleep nor feel secure.
~ ??ntideva
Ik zoek de mensen zolang ze vreemden zijn; ik ontvlucht ze zodra ze dat niet meer zijn.
~ August Willemsen
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
~ August Wilson