Quotes About Strangers

All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon? Then they exchange lies.

Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!

When strangers walk up to me and want to play golf for money, I worry. I wonder why they're coming to me, and I begin asking questions: When did you start playing? What's your best score? Are you playing your best golf right now? Where do you play? Usually I can tell if they're lying.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

After being married, hearing 'You're hot!' from a total stranger means a hundred times more than hearing it from your husband.

The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.

Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise

La lista de mis miedos (en desorden): A la muerte. A los aviones. A la locura. A las enfermedades. A las amputaciones. A los barcos. A la velocidad. A la altura. Al mar. A los tiburones, osos, serpientes, arañas, perros desconocidos. A los desconocidos. A las ciudades, barrios, calles desconocidas. A los suburbios. A los ascensores. A la miseria. A las operaciones médicas, a las operaciones financieras. A las armas. A los dentistas.

The Kugels, Kugel hated to admit, might just have to, in the event of genocide, rely on the kindness of strangers. Mother used to say: I can name six million people who relied on the kindness of strangers.

We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.

Time and need compels to trust strangers even for a specific time

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

I don't know you, And you don't know me. It is this that brings us together.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

I am not your wife. We are strangers. Did I imagine that wedding service we attended together in a small church in Devon? he asked. Did I imagine that we consummated the marriage in a very thorough manner for two nights?

He found the life of Jesus profoundly moving; the miracles, on the other hand, seemed a barrier to faith, and he tended to explain them to himself in rational terms. It was as though there were only seven loaves and seven fishes. Maybe the miracle was that people shared what they had with strangers, he thought in the darkness.

We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, our loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.

but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers. Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey; but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose.

We get nervous or anxious when talking to new people. It is because people are generally uncomfortable with the unknown. You

The lesson of this study is that, on the whole, having to deal with strangers teaches you to be polite to them, and that in order for such generosity to emerge, costly punishment of selfishness may be necessary.

What is miraculous is that in modern society you can trust and be trusted by a shopkeeper you do not know.