Quotes with strangers

  • Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
  • There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
  • Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
  • There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
  • But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
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  • Tennessee Williams I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Armistead Maupin But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Alexander Pope By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bernard Malamud Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Paul Auster Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance.
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
    Alfred Day Hershey
     
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  • William Shakespeare I do desire we may be better strangers.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Armistead Maupin I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Ian McEwan I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Francis Bacon If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Cate Blanchett If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Maya Angelou If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''Good morning'' at total strangers.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Graham Greene In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers, when it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Carol Burnett It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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