Stranger Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Science, Religion

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• All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

  Judith Crist

  Women, Love You, Memorable

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• The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Women, Memorable, Names

  Observer 20 August (1978)

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• The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.

  Flemming Rose

  Buddhism, Islam, Cartoon

  "Why I Published Those Cartoons". www.washingtonpost.com. February 19, 2006.

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• My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

  Jonathan Swift

  Horse, Four, Hours

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Talking, Nasty

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Wall, Moving

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Able, Acquaintance

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• Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Book, Dust, Remember

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

  William Shatner

  Rejection, Risk, Born

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

  Phyllis Diller

  Doors, House, Enemy

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• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  Sarah Vowell

  Dream, Retirement, Sunset

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 06, 2010

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• I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

  Montgomery Clift

  Cute, Mother, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
  and best friends become strangers, word up

  Nas

  Thug, And Love

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• I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

  Adam Pally

  Song, May, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always had a real fascination with Alice in Wonderland and really related to it in some way. And since I was little, people always nicknamed me Alice, even total strangers. I do know I'm always in Wonderland. And I'm definitely just as curious. I don't mind being amongst the mad people, I enjoy it.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Real, People, Mad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Voice, Details

  "Solo: Women Singer-songwriters in Their Own Words". Book by Marc Woodworth, 1998.

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• I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Perfect, Perfect Strangers

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• There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically. It's the only truly safe place and it can happen with a stranger or a best friend.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Forget Everything, Laughing, Special

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• What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Girl, Past, Men

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• I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

  Kathleen Turner

  Support Systems, Admiration, Underestimate

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• Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

  Ben Stein

  Children, Asking, Bother

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• I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

  Donald Trump

  People, Lucky, Done

  Donald J. Trump, Bill Zanker (2007). “Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life”, HarperBus

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• Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Understanding, Feels

  "11th Hour", Colorado Public Television, 1994.

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