Quotes About Strangers

men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.

We are taught to speak with courtesy to strangers," Farouk went on. "For we do not know the evil or the good that may be in such a person's heart." The

The door is on the latch tonight, The hearth-fire is aglow, I seem to hear soft passing feet- The Christchild in the snow. My heart is open wide tonight For strangers, kith or kin; I would not bar a single door Where love might enter in. Author unknown

Political identities that were once constructed from life among those we know in places we live are now formed over huge distances among strangers whose bonds are formed mostly over things they loathe in common.

The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

Whatever the two may once have been in their country, they were now just a pair of overconfident strangers in a place where they couldn't find their way to a bathroom on their own.

He possessed the six attributes of the adventurer-- a memory for names and faces, with the aptitude for altering his own; the gift of tongues; inexhaustible invention; secrecy; the talent for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon.

for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Our minds race ahead of us and summon strangers.

Aquí no toman afecto a los extraños como no se lo tomes tú primero a ellos, y a mí nunca me convino el esfuerzo.

Jews are always strangers,' Harriet thought

But I think it must be easier for a girl to marry someone she doesn't know, because the more you get to know men, the harder it is to love them.

Görücü usulü evlilikte zor olan ÅŸey, kad?n?n hiç tan?mad??? biriyle evlenmesi deÄŸil, hiç tan?mad??? birini sevmek zorunda olmas?d?r, derler... Ama asl?nda bir k?z?n hiç tan?mad??? biriyle evlenebilmesi daha kolay olmal?, çünkü tan?d?kça inan?n erkekleri sevmek daha da zorla??yor.

Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends.

And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.

I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell.

People will tell a stranger on a bus what they wont tell their spouse.

and he knew that he would not be buried in this valley but in some distant place among strangers

The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun: a certain amount of difficulty plus a certain amount of your friends plus a certain amount of interesting strangers plus a certain amount of reward plus a certain amount of opportunity equaled fun

and I knew better than I had ever known before, knew with all the reluctant certainty of a broken heart, that the intimate affection of a husband—and perhaps even the innocent love of a child—could never compete with the thrill she got from the adulation of strangers.