Stranger Quotes

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Never floss with a stranger.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.