Stranger Quotes - Page 40

• Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  May, Rooms, Evening

  "Some Enchanted Evening" (song) (1949)

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• To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

  T. S. Eliot

  Events, Bottles, Unexpected

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• Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Self, Vision

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• As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Mean, Long, Doe

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• Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Integrity, Inspiration, Skins

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Country, War, School

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.100, Lantern Books

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• He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Humble, Heart

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• We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were days when we forgot who we were. We made it. And we must thank the stars for this. And the birds for their beautiful songs. And the strangers who were careful to smile. We made it.

  Ron Atchison

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Song

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• Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

  Jimmy Carter

  Long, Environmental, Care

  Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.967, Best Books on

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• I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Phrenology, Talent

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• It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dog, Men, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Of a Happy Life, Chapter XIX, 1922.

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• When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Differences

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Chapter XI, 1688.

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• There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Matter, Faces

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.214, 谷月社

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• If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Marriage, Humor

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• Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.

  Marc Chagall

  Russia, Needs, Certain

  Marc Chagall (1960). “My Life”, New York : Orion Press

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• To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

  Jean Rostand

  Eye, Artist, Inspire

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Believe, People, Film

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

  Alain de Botton

  Conversation, Drunkards, Fanatics

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

  Stefan Zweig

  Secret, Advantage, Given

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• I was always told that Hoosier came from when settlers in the state, when a stranger came on their property they'd say, "Who's there? Who's there?" So people that were from Indiana were the people that said "Who's there?" But what do I know? I don't read or interact with people outside the Internet.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Indiana, Hoosiers

  "Ask Jim Gaffigan". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2007.

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• My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.

  Tony Robbins

  Simple, Years, Today

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Talking, Ideas, Laughing

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Husband, Father, Artist

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• I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

  John Hirsch

  Mean, Artist, Double Vision

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• Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.

  David

  Mean, Talking, Car

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