Quotes with strangers

Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barack Obama My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
    20-11-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
    The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson (1965) door Robert L. Polley, p. 61
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Bill Moyers Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Willa Cather Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Elizabeth Bishop Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Will Rogers Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Angela Carter 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.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Chuck Palahniuk The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
    Chuck Palahniuk
    American novelist and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Shirley Maclaine The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • William Butler Yeats There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bayard Taylor 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.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ronald Laing 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.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Malamud We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • V.S. Naipaul We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
    A Way in the World (2012) 8
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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