Best Stranger Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 8

“There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own.”

Giving Helping Humor Lasts Political Night Prayer Greater Journey Endure Stranger Yield Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.”

Eye Christian Wonder History Mystery Worship Curiosity Stranger Awful Affected Secrecy Concealed Christian Faith Roman Empire

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.”

Should Years Looks Two Age Hate Education Five Youth Periods Twenties Seven Vices Following Stranger Pursuit Five Years Divided Hereafter Passed Away Puberty

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”

Needs Humans Wells Might Spirit Quality Poet Highest Ideals Stranger Poetic Mates Intercourse Similarity Dreary Elevation Endowment Craftsman

Book:The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.”

Want Writing Book Differences Huge Activity Conversation Stranger Intimate Writing A Book

Author:Michelle Tea

“Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.”

Feels Trying Long Doe Matter Moving Fall Arms Stranger Not Afraid Ache Touch Me Hold Me Open Arms

Author:Kate Bush

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.”

People Ifs Can Do Stranger Remarkable Get Over Distrust Initials

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others”

Thinking World Trying Two Certain Turns Middle New York Goes On One Day Population Stranger Critical Staring Experts Leap Savages Insects Noon Bumps Density Swarms Grasshoppers

Author:John D. MacDonald

“I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.”

Want Feels Persons Shows Girl Fronts Elements Normal Standing Bottom Stranger Swimming Pool Other Girl Bikinis Swimming Pool

Author:Elizabeth Hurley

“Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.”

Stories Night Sleep Player Train Stranger Cards Meals Short Story Intrigue Good Night Anything Is Possible Framed Monologues Binge

Book:The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.”

Knows Country Film Language Player Land Strange Tvs Like You Couple Stranger Visiting Foreign Countries Abnormality Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Anthony Heald

“Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.”

Children Possibility Objects Terrible Lessons Anxiety Fellows Train Stranger Dirty Foul Traveller Irrevocable Contingency Talkative

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.”

Long Book Talking Stranger

Book:The Last Bookaneer: A Novel

Source: The Last Bookaneer: A Novel

“Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.”

People Knows Years Long Happens Faces Lovers Members Long Time Claims Twenties Distance Stranger Familiar Old Friends Family Members Familiar Faces

Book:Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale

“I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.”

People Thinking World I Can Desire Challenges Wonder Stranger Monsters Shocking Adopted Subtlety Provocative

Author:Marilyn Manson

“You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?”

Thinking United Strive Stranger Supreme Supreme Being

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”

Feels Care Fronts Stranger I Care Abstraction

Book:I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

“The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.”

Facts Seems Brain Fiction Stranger Adages Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.”

Ends Might Running Kindness Depends Accounts Currents Stranger Empires Deficit American Empire

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!”

Way Persons Stills Book Film Strange Husband Stranger My Husband Screenwriters Stay With Me

Author:Dani Shapiro

“Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Humans Kind Children Persons Ideas America Race Periods Sight Our Children Mad Stranger Radical Your Children Human Race Stakes Twelve Radical Ideas Mad Person

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.”

Thinking Giving Art Including Stranger Dialogue Shared Experiences

Author:Janet Echelman

“According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.”

Half Members Percent Murder Victim Committed Stranger Neighbor Girlfriend Statistics Acquaintance Casual Fbi Family Members Boyfriend And Girlfriend Murder Victims

Author:Alafair Burke

“We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness”

Stranger Wilderness

Author:Matt Prior

“Worry is anti-trust. If you're worried, you don't trust something: your kids, their friends, strangers, the church, even God. Can He take care of your children? Certainly. Jesus says, 'I tell you, stop being anxious and worried about your life.' Pretty blunt. Stop it! Easier said than done, huh? Worry tests your trust, so hand your children to God and let Him babysit your babies when you're not around. He's pretty good at it!”

Ifs Children Said Done Hands Care Kids Jesus Church Worry Baby Easier Tests Our Children Stranger Take Care Worried Your Children Anxious Don't Trust Blunt Easier Said Than Done

Author:Max Lucado

“"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.”

Practice Stranger Surfing Payment Couches Incessantly Sociable

Author:Patricia Marx

“Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power to psychically kill goats. Guy was bewildered. He did not go around publicizing this. Who were these men? How did they know about the goats? He feigned a casual tone of voice and said, 'Sure I can.'Then he phoned Special Forces.”

Ifs Knows Men Said I Can War Guy Force Voice Half Roles Special Winter Terror Stranger Tone Dozen Mail Telephones Casual Goats War On Terror Bewildered Special Forces

Author:Jon Ronson

“Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.”

Thinking Mets Stranger

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."”

Knows Men Feels Said Use Spirit Lying Night Mankind Stranger Mortals Sensations Buried Somewhere Else Spooky Using Me Windy

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.”

Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.”

Men Giving May Littles Two Whole Shows Doors Mystery Hair Keys Words Of Wisdom Weight Heavy Stranger Lions Clue Observers Trifling

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories

“If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?”

Ifs Knows Culture Universe Theory Stranger Alternatives Cycles Fulfilling

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers.”

People Years Mind Children Has Beens Safe Treats Our Children Stranger Your Children Poison Apples Reports Halloween Candy Blades Twisted Razors Taffy Twisted Minds Halloween Candy

Author:Ann Landers

“I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!”

Persons Wanted Towns Stranger

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.”

Kind Children Made Reading Found Chance Written Television Industry Stranger Mediums Fascination Abraham 1930s Portraying

Author:Steven Spielberg

“For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.”

People Knows World Way Looks Long Desire This World Long Time Window Stranger Rear Window

Author:Will Oldham

“When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.”

People Knows World Want Should Years Home Suffering Gone Months Mark Stranger Nine Coming Home Do You Know Closest Nine Months Estrangement

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.”

Men Matter Age Watches Gone Our Lives Stage Scene Stranger Tone Touched What Matters Reversal

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.”

People World Book Written Bounds Stranger Commodity Printed

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.”

May Reason Reality Truth Running Lying Order Reading Ability Fiction Honesty Truth Is Anger Stranger Rational Thread Irrational Believable Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”

Mind Made Lasts Race Millions New York Months Solitude Lonely Stranger Desert Midst Splendid

Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.”

Knows Men Doe I Can Faces Joy Greater Strange Solitude Blind Curiosity Stranger Staring Ashamed Thirst Blindness Shameless Blind Man

Book:Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams

Source: Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams

“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”

Source: The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…

“The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.”