Stranger Quotes - Page 40

• Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

  Milton Friedman

  Birthday, Morning, Mirrors

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Tyrants, Europe

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.32, Penguin

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• I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Thinking, Issues

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• I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

  Lana Del Rey

  Kindness, War, Believe

  "Ride". Video clip, "Born to Die" album deluxe edition, www.youtube.com. October 12, 2012.

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• When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Father, Fighting

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• This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

  R.K. Narayan

  Education, Roots, Office

  R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage

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• We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Sometimes, Traits

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Way in the World: A Sequence”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

  Euripides

  Fate, Sorrow, Cursed

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• And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Self, May

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.24

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• 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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