Stranger Quotes - Page 35

• It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.

  Marisha Pessl

  War, Simple, People

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• "What about him?" she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?" "I don’t want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I’m not interested in lips out of context."

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Lunch, Guy

  "Fangirl". Book by Rainbow Rowell, September 10, 2013.

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• I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Answers, Want

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

  Marie Lu

  Heart, Blood, Turns

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• I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Shots, Mice

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.51, Penguin

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• I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Said

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• Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.

  Marie Lu

  Distance, Feet, Three

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

  David Rakoff

  Hate, Book, Love Is

  David Rakoff (2013). “Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel”, p.94, Doubleday

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• When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Being Alone, Silence

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Born in a stable,
  Cradled in a manger,
  In the world His hands have made,
  Born a stranger.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Hands, World

  Christina Rossetti, “Before The Paling Of The Stars”

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• History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.

  Stephen Fry

  Memories, History, Enemy

  "The future's in the past". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2006.

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• At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

  Susan Sarandon

  Hope, Time, Hands

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• It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, School, Long

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• When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

  David Starr Jordan

  Funny, Dog, Religious

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• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Fiction, Truth Is

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• I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Kindness, Business

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 2009.

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• For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
  lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
  there to know what we have done for those we love.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, People, Unbearable

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• If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Jesus, Peace, Lying

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Thinking, Assuming

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• When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Oneself

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• All the wild sweetness of the flower
  Tangled against the wall.
  It was that magic, silent hour....
  The branches grew so tall
  They twined themselves into a bower.
  The sun shown ... and the fall
  
  Of yellow blossom on the grass!
  You feel that golden rain?
  Both of you could not hold, alas,
  (both of you tried, in vain)
  A memory, stranger. So I pass....
  It will not come again.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mind, Enemy

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• The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

  William Penn

  Taken, Humility, Humble

  William Penn (1863). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life”, p.63

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• Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  America, Speech, Faces

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