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Quotes About Strangers

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
~ Jordan Peele
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Always be sure to show compassion and kindness to strangers..for you never know when you may be in the company of an angel...angels don't always have wings.
~ Unknown
No less than my grandmother, she dreaded these invasions of strangers, and, in her fear of being too late to escape if she let herself be seen, would fly from the room with a rapidity which always made my father and me laugh at her.
~ Marcel Proust
Don't search for answers. I felt like I was always searching. Literally -- when I felt depressed I'd wander online, pressing links, looking for something that would make me feel better. I'd surf from friends' photos to strangers' blog posts about how to apply makeup, to the flight message board, to Googling Will for the hundredth time--and feel worse.
~ Unknown
You cannot cross the borders of the soul without at least once be tempted to look back… There are worlds over there. They are calling you to turn your way… familiar faces, strangers, us who have knocked countless times at its gates and they were opened for us.
~ Unknown
But coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.
~ Marie Brennan
Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didnt know what to do! I'd knock on peoples doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."
~ Rita Rudner
Lo que sí no es ningún tipo de diversión es la cantidad cada vez mayor de personas que han venido a morir al salón de belleza. Ya no son solamente amigos en cuyos cuerpos el mal está avanzado, sino que la mayoría son extraños que no tiene dónde irse a morir.
~ Unknown
What right did she have to take photographs of strangers? But she knew these faces....These people had been made to feel inadequate, abnormal. Their lives were disfigured by circumstance.
~ Marisa Silver
I raised an eyebrow. "I've told you not to talk to hairy strangers, right?" "Define hairy," Byron said, but there was a rare faint smile on his face, and I almost smiled back.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers. We call this 'culture'.
~ Unknown
What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.
~ Mark Strand
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
~ Franklin P Jones
Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other
~ William Somerset Maugham
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
~ Will Rogers
ones who had never met us but confidently
~ Mary Matalin
sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
~ Marya Mannes
Love from strangers is better than apathy from relatives.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never let a stranger's negative opinion of you become your own negative opinion of you.
~ Matt Haig
The letters fading like retreating strangers in a fog.
~ Matt Haig