Stranger Quotes - Page 30

• Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

  Carol Alt

  Fiction, Facts, Sometimes

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

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• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Interesting, Fiction, Truth Is

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• He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Thought Provoking, Fool

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.94, Heinemann

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• One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Times

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• Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Faith, Christian, Children

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.7848, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.

  Henri Poincare

  Leadership, Math, Law

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• Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat."

  Rita Rudner

  Halloween, Doors, People

  "Jokes over easy: 1,386 delicious jokes from the best comedians" by Judy Brown, Barnes & Noble, (p. 112), 2006.

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• The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Writing, Heart

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.23, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Self, Mad

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth - Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary, Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary, Safe to its home in Thy presence above.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Jesus, Children, Cheer

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.

  Jim Sinclair

  Dream, Moving, Autism

  "Don't Mourn for Us". Autism Network International newsletter, "Our Voice", Volume 1, Number 3, 1993.

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• Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

  Ian Shoales

  Funny, Football, Player

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it’s Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger’s face into a life.

  Manohla Dargis

  Looks, Faces, Moments

  "No Time for Audiobooks: He’s on the Road to His Destiny" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2014.

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• How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.

  Craig Davidson

  Self, Forever, Wish

  Craig Davidson (2012). “Sarah Court”, p.64, ChiZine Publications

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• Your love
  Should never be offered to the mouth of a
  Stranger,
  Only to someone
  Who has the valor and daring
  To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
  Then weave them into a blanket
  To protect you.

  Hafez

  Heart, Cutting, Knives

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• There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.

  Mike Fontenot

  People, Feelings, Singing

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• The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

  P. D. James

  Daughter, Hurt, Children

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.101, Vintage

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• Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, People, Marketing

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• Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, America, Fire

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.

  Toby Keith

  Girl, Fall, Phones

  Song: Yet, Album: Dream Walkin', 1997

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• They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

  Gertrude Bacon

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Smart, Widows And Orphans

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• And if the soul
  Is to know itself
  It is into a soul
  That it must look:
  The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Mirrors, Soul, Enemy

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• Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Self, Doe, May

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.442, Macmillan

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