Stranger Quotes - Page 27

• That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

  Franny Billingsley

  Stories, Handsome

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.2, A&C Black

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• It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Limits, Absurd

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.134, Stanford University Press

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• Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dog, Sleep, Simple

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Lasts, Last Night

  Song: Standing In The Doorway, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

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• My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

  Richard Bach

  Home, Airplane, Flying

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have.

  Frank McCourt

  Children, Home, Heart

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Bumps, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.20, Vintage

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• I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Scared, Ghost, Road Life

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

  Gayle Forman

  Mean, Together, Target

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.115, Penguin

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• She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Waiting, Made

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• Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.

  Gerald Durrell

  Mother, Uncles, Cat

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• It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.

  Hayley Williams

  Enemy

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• So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Important, Involvement

  "The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje " by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2011.

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• But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grieving, Wife, Forever

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Control Of Your Life, Giving, Ruins

  Jeffrey H. Gitomer (1998). “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know”, Bard

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• Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Voice, Body

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• I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cat, Men, Bed

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

  Dennis Lehane

  Self Esteem, Worry, Important

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• There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Two, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.574, Modern Library

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• Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger.

  Linda Howard

  Laughter, Men, Names

  Linda Howard (2009). “Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Character, Thinking, Artist

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• My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  Alice Hoffman

  Country, Healing, School

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• It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

  "A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander".

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• We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Faith, Dream, Inspiration

  Song: Someday

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• The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Land, Long

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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