Quotes About Strangers

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.

The telegraph may have made the country into "one neighborhood," but it was a peculiar one, populated by strangers who knew nothing but the most superficial facts about each other.

when we were strangers, I liked you from afar when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart

Dead strangers evoked a smorgasbord of the lesser emotions and served as marvelous educational tools, warnings, and veiled threats. When an acquaintance was killed, it was closer to home; one knew some of the threads that tied the deceased to a common humanity. Without enough real connection to grieve, one was left in an uncomfortable place between curiosity and embarrassment.

Air travel is such a strange experience. It´s such an intimate thing, to travel alongside a stranger for so many hours, to eat together, take in a film, snooze side by side. In economy I think that it´s so intimate, that like neighbours on the same landing, most of us consider that it´s better not to take the risk of ever getting to know them. In business class, there´s just enough room - as elbows don´t actually touch - to take that chance.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She

We dull your natural fear of strangers and of difference. We keep you from injuring or killing us or yourselves.

Why do you always expect the worst of everyone?' When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

People I cared about could hurt my feels, but almost complete strangers? I could care less what they thought.

I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to blank my face. It wouldn't help with the werewolves, who would be able to smell my distress, but at least I wouldn't have complete strangers stop and ask me what was wrong.

People I cared about could hurt my feelings, but almost complete strangers? I could care less about what they thought.

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

El único acto íntimo entre dos extraños que todavía es posible, es el de la lectura

A book is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy

You are light: you will sleep through my Spring till it's over. I am lighter: in front of strangers I sing.

The time is coming to an end when you can wander the roads of the world as free and easy as you like, and meet a stranger across firelight. They will fence in the world entire ere they are done, the clever men of this earth, and there will be no space left on it for vagabonds, and dreamers... and little lost girls running from their fate.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.