Stranger Quotes - Page 12

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally aren't great at turning down someone's advance.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

we walk the plank with strangers.

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.