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Strangers Quotes

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them.

– John O’Donohue

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

– William Shakespeare

As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2.

It’s different when you’re an actor and playing a part, but when it’s just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

– Helena Bonham Carter

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

– Jerry Saltz

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

– Bill Moyers

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

– Barack Obama

If had a penny for every strange look I’ve gotten from strangers on the street I’d have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you’re dealing with pennies.

– Andy Samberg

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

– Barack Obama

In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.

– Craig Brown

Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

– Alan Huffman

I don’t date guys that I just meet randomly. I don’t feel comfortable meeting strangers.

– Ali Landry

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

– Adlai E. Stevenson

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

– Baha’u’llah

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

– Andrew Dominik

I’m more the sort of person who doesn’t like hugging strangers because we don’t know each other, so we shouldn’t.

– Carey Mulligan

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

– George McGovern

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn’t even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That’s not shy, that’s wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist’s notebook in your hand it wasn’t really you, you see.

– Geraldine Brooks

There’s nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

– Pete Hamill

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

– Ellen G. White

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

– Georg Simmel

We need to demystify – get out and speak to strangers on the street.

– Colin Salmon

A nation’s poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

– George Edward Woodberry

What a powerful thing to know: That one’s own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

– George Saunders

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

– Douglas William Jerrold

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

– George Sand

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.

– Matt Roper

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’

– P. J. O’Rourke

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

– Max Muller

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

– Marilyn Ferguson

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