Quotes About Strangers

I worry that I might come out of hypnosis with that sugar-high glaze of self-satisfied enlightenment, like a seventeen-year-old who's just discovered Kerouac, and start proselytizing strangers in pubs.

Only someone you know is going to assume you know them by saying 'it's me.' It's strangers who use names, since they know you don't know who they are." I'm terrified to think that that almost made sense.

Sir, with due respect and all, my mummy-ji told me not to speak with strangers," said Puri, conscious that Naga was now standing directly behind him.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

Is dangerous, I know, to take ride from strangers. With assault rifle in backpack, not so dangerous.

Footsteps and jolly hallooing come his way: sounds more terrible to his ears than the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen, for they signify that he shall have to be civil to chaps he barely knows.

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game

They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

I think they've met before, she finally said. Who? Thibault and the loser?

I can understand criticism coming from people who have met me, but it is off-putting to hear nasty things about myself from people I have never met or even seen in life.

clichés got that way because they reflected reality. Better the devil you know. Don't take sweets from strangers.

Great perils share this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Promise me you won't let any more strangers take you up to a hotel room, okay?

Strangers who have talked too much were often better never to meet again.

You gotta be nice to strangers even when they are the worst, because they don't know you well enough to understand how shut your big face can mean I've missed you more than the whole world can know .

One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.

I am writing for myself and strangers.

Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

And the passion with which we loved the Lord was a measure of how deeply we feared and distrusted and, in the end, hated almost all strangers, always, and avoided and despised ourselves.