Stranger Quotes

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

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.

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.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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

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.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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.

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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

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