Quotes About Strangers

Montaigne discussed the hypocrisy of seeing strangers as savage: "every man calls barbarous the thing he is not accustomed to.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

The freedoms that we cherish are meaningless without our commitments to one another: to civil discourse, to actively educating the next generation, to welcoming strangers, to loving our neighbors. The beginning of freedom is the beginning of responsibility. Our night of vigil has already begun.

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers

We both see strangers and react. We don't like to walk by people without nodding. We're broken when people are rude. Were broken when people can't meet us halfway. We can't accept the limits of normal human relations-chilly, clothed, circumscribed. Our hearts pull against their leashes.

Well, nobody wants to be alone, especially around Christmas. I'm sure you know that most suicides happen around the holidays. Besides, this isn't a train this time of year. It's a social club of strangers looking for a friend.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

God be wi' you. Let's meet as little as we can. Orlando: I do desire we may be better strangers.

her skirt pocket, taking reassurance from its cool steel. She knew she might be overreacting, but in West Texas any strangers met on the range were treated as potential enemies until they proved otherwise by sociable talk and honorable intentions. "Maria Ana, are you armed?' Kate said. The woman shook her head. "No. I never had the need while Rodolfo was around. Kate, are we in danger?

She knew that he had never seen her before. She knew the value of first impressions.

Sir, if you are otherwise discreet, you will consider that you have gone far enough. At my brother's request I am treating you no less kindly than Ampflise treated my uncle Gahmuret, without going to bed together. My kindness would in the long run outweigh hers, if anyone were to weigh us properly. And besides, Sir, I don't know who you are, and yet in such a short space of time you want to have my love.

Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.

God help you child. If you were mine, I'd never leave you in a house with strangers.

alguien depende de la amabilidad de un extraño es que quienes lo rodean no son gente con la que ha podido contar.

But he was a stranger and we tend to believe whatever we first hear about strangers.

Los perros, de cierto, ladran a quien no conocen

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys.

Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers.

The dead wander the lanes of the next life like strangers lost in Venice.

Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere.

I thought news was despicable. It was publicly-supported gossip, invasion into the lives and sufferings of strangers, and the love of it represented an unconscionable desire to destroy the privacy of people whose lives had been thrown into turmoil.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.