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Quotes About Strangers

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
~ Homer
Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.
~ Albanian Proverb
I do desire we may be better strangers.
~ William Shakespeare
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
~ James McGreevey
Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
~ Seth Godin
Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.
~ Evan Osnos
When my TV show was in production, dozens of women asked me out on Facebook. Some were shy about it; some were blatant. Some I knew, some were total strangers. But they went for it.
~ Chris Gethard
Logic and people who subscribed to conspiracy theories were often strangers to each other.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
~ Suzy Kassem
Jesus' command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.
~ Kester Brewin
Cease seeking a strangers heart to love when your own remains neglected.
~ Sara Secora
If you want strangers to help you, smile. For those close to you, cry.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who don't like or understand him.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walk around Tokyo and all you see are people trying to sell you something. Tell them okay and before you know you have bought something. Make the mistake of telling your address and now you're on a mailing list. Some old guy pats you on the shoulder and before you know what hit you you're in a hotel room. Stalkers' victims, the ones they kill, are always women.
~ Natsuo Kirino
A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.
~ Neal Shusterman
Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.
~ Neal Shusterman
Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone strangers.
~ Neal Shusterman
I HAVE DIED TOO MANY TIMES BELIEVING AND WAITING, WAITING IN A ROOM STARING AT A CRACKED CEILING WAITING FOR THE PHONE, A LETTER, A KNOCK, A SOUND… GOING WILD INSIDE WHILE SHE DANCED WITH STRANGERS IN NIGHTCLUBS… OUT OF THE ARMS OF ONE LOVE AND INTO THE ARMS OF ANOTHER
~ Charles Bukowski
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. Ephesians 2:18,19
~ Charles Capps
For I fear the Gods, and show hospitality to all strangers; knowing that good deeds, like evil ones, always return to those who do them.
~ Charles Kingsley
We are strangers," Peter said darkly. "Whom do we know? One—if you're lucky. Not many more. Looks like we've got to learn how we can trust each other. How we can tell … How can we dare … Everything rests on trust between strangers. Everything else is a house of cards.
~ Charlotte Armstrong
It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife. I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that. Even brothers and sisters from the same womb disagree; how much more two strangers. No, you may quarrel, but let it not end in fighting.
~ Chinua Achebe
Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more. And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too
~ Chris Bohjalian
he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages.  Lost.  He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one
~ Thomas Wolfe