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Quotes About Strangers

No pudo haber dos corazones más abiertos, ni gustos tan similares, ni sentimientos tan unificados. Ahora eran dos extraños. No; peor que extraños, porque jamás podrían llegar a conocerse. Era un exilio perpetuo.
~ Jane Austen
She rattled around that huge house, growing more and more used to being on her own, resenting his presence more and more when he was back for the weekends, feeling like he was invading her space. They became like strangers, ships that pass in the night, not able to agree on anything, not having any common ground
~ Jane Green
Isn't it funny how sometimes you can instantly connect with people? How, despite being almost strangers, you can feel that you have known someone all your life?
~ Jane Green
The bedrock attribute of a successful city district is that a person must feel personally safe and secure on the street among all these strangers.
~ Jane Jacobs
They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
~ Jane Jacobs
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
~ Janet Fitch
This was the wonderful thing about strangers. They were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw whatever you liked on their impressionable surfaces.
~ Janet Fitch
Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.
~ Alan Huffman
Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.
~ Keanu Reeves
A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
~ Zosia Mamet
Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
~ Robin Morgan
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
~ Thomas More
Hello, friends.' I've had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don't apologize for it. Like my dad - for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease - I've never met a stranger.
~ Jim Nantz
It's one thing for your mum to tell you that you look OK, but she's your mum and she has to tell you you're beautiful. It's not the same as a stranger telling you.
~ Katie Piper
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again.
~ Steven Berkoff
Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
~ Bill Moyers
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
~ George Sand
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.
~ Sebastian Kurz
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
~ Dave Grohl
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
~ P. J. O'Rourke
No one's arguing that the Internet is evil. But talking about strangers is another conversation you have to have with your kids.
~ Chris Hansen