Strangers Quotes
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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned.
Alexander Pope— 1717 Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, l.51-4.
Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.
russell baker— "Small Kicks in Superland" (p.56)
Shells used to come bursting on my bed at midnight, even though Nancy shared it with me; strangers in daytime would assume the faces of friends who had been killed... I could not use a telephone, I felt sick every time I travelled by train, and to see more than two new people in a single day prevented me from sleeping.
robert graves— Ch.26 On being at home in Harlech in 1919. During the First World War, the mental effects of war on the fighting men were called shell shock or neurasthenia — or dismissed altogether as cowardice. Graves describes very clearly symptoms of what would now be seen as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Bible (NewTestament)— Hebrews 13:1-2.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Willa Sibert Cather— 1936 In Commonweal,17 Apr.
Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?
Roger McGough— 1982 'Waving At Trains'.
In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints.[...]
washington irving— Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330.
It came about like a typical audition where the actress doesn’t know a soul in the room, and exposes her heart and vulnerability in hopes of winning a handful of strangers’ affection.
masiela lusha— On being cast for the role of Carmen Lopez on the George Lopez show
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
paul of tarsus— Hebrews 13:2 (KJV)
“When it comes to strangers with guns,” I told her, “I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.”
octavia butler— Chapter 11 (p. 122)
Men always talk about the most important things to total strangers . It is because in the total stranger we perceive man himself; the image of God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of the wisdom of a moustache.
gilbert keith chesterton— The Club of Queer Trades (1905) Ch. 5 "The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd"
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
Alain de Botton— Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 16
I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.
ellen degeneres— Here and Now
Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of them is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
jane jacobs— The Death And Life of Great American Cities, p. 30
"Sometimes," I said, "it seems to me that a friend might not take such pleasure in making fun of me as you do." "Dear Odd! If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends . How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness."
dean r. koontz— Chapter 11; Odd Thomas's recounting of a conversation with Little Ozzie
'We are strangers, lost and bemused," Roadstrum said to the lady. "We have landed here by accident. We are looking for a lady who was singing, the lady who (according to silly myth) is identical with the planet and who sang the planet into being."
r. a. lafferty— Ch. 6 (Space Chantey (1968))
Mama said not to be taking rides from strangers.
forrest Gump— Forrest Gump (1994), Michael Conner Humphreys
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
— Tahir Shah (2001), in Sorcerer's Apprentice, p.56
I do desire we may be better strangers.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act III, scene 2, line 274.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
tennessee williams— Said by his character Blanche DuBois, in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
— 17:25 (KJV).
This very cause between parties who (on both sides) are strangers to the whole transaction, shews the wisdom of some limitation.
— Lord Mansfield, Johnson v. Hargreaves (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 962; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 163.
You know, you should never trust strangers, Sammy. This is going to be fun.
— Who: Gandrayda
— Source: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
— Notes: Character says this line prior to fighting Samus, after which Gandrayda is killed.
This time of year means being kind to everyone we meet, to share a smile with strangers we may pass along the street.
— Betty Black in "This Time of Year".
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
— Paul of Tarsus in Hebrews 13:2 (KJV).
strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail
kathleen raine— Poem The Ancient Speech
The tumbleweeds do not last long, Nor does the Dude. If the Stranger’s words do not last Why should those of man, man? To follow the Dude, become the Dude; the Dude will abide you.
— Ch. 23 : Blathering (The Dude De Ching (2010))
