Stranger Quotes - Page 9

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.