Quotes About Strangers

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.

I never realised how overwhelming it could be to be loved by people who don't even know you.

Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! —Hebrews 13:2

Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. —3 John 1:5

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order.

The clerk says to me, "If you're pregnant, you shouldn't eat cold cuts." Now that my belly shows, I'm public property. Strangers speak to me all the time. They tell me how I should do everything.

Our biases can be used against themselves: we are better placed to nudge our friends and family away from their prejudices than we are to urge such moral transformation on strangers.

If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.

Darling, I have enemies I've never met. that's fame!

It was like they were strangers. Maybe they were, again.

How many times we must have met Here on the street as strangers do, Children of chance we were, who passed The door of heaven and never knew.

I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

She kept saying, My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back. But that's the kind of lie people tell sometimes when they got only strangers to rely on. There's shame in that, so people lie.

Keeping his distance was a favor, a courtesy, to all those strangers who might, probably would, emerge somehow poorer for proximity to him.

The concept of the soul is the profoundest possible bond among us, an unshakable basis for compassion, recognition, and love, which, acknowledged, would enable us to love enemies, welcome strangers, and all the rest.

Strangers decide their lives.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

porque cuando nos hablan del Peligro que suponen los Desconocidos en el colegio dicen que si un hombre se te acerca y te habla y te da miedo debes buscar a una señora y correr hacia ella, porque las señoras son más seguras.

But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests.