Quotes and Sayings about Strangers
"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."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Friend, Friends, Gain, Strangers, Will)
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Man, Strangers, World)
"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Appearance, Lies, Problems, Strangers)
"Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive."
- Stella Benson
(Related: Family, Jokes, Strangers)
"As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Change, Technology, Children, Grandparents, Internet, Strangers, Talk)
"The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers."
- John Britton
(Related: Life, Feelings, Strangers, Years)
"But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: History, Time, Country, Future, Self, Strangers, Unkindness)
"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
(Related: Help, Kindness, Strangers)
"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
(Related: Success, Family, People, Fact, Friends, Sight, Strangers, Will)
"I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!"
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Love, People, Strangers)
"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
(Related: Dream, Cinema, Strangers)
"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Actor, Strangers)
"To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority."
- Thomas Cavendish
(Related: Men, Authority, Strangers)
"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 K. Chesterton
(Related: Men, Wisdom, God, Man, Strangers, Talk)
"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
- Richard Cobden
(Related: War, Agreement, Difficulties, Friends, Question, Strangers)
"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
(Related: Dream, Friends, Habits, Nothing, Regret, Strangers, Surprises)
"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
- Adele Comandini
(Related: Christmas, Strangers)
"Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: History, Faces, Friends, Mystery, Nothing, Strangers)
"I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at."
- Celine Dion
(Related: Singing, Strangers)
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
(Related: People, First, Interest, Sight, Strangers, Word)
"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Ability, Reading, Shakespeare, Strangers)
"I have always done films with friends rather than strangers."
- Sanjay Dutt
(Related: Friends, Strangers)
"Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Time, People, Affection, Feeling, Guests, Strangers)
"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives."
- Marilyn Ferguson
(Related: Friends, Strangers, Walking, Years)
"So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really."
- Neil Finn
(Related: Being, Heroes, Now, Strangers)
"When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging."
- Tom Glazer
(Related: People, Exercise, Strangers, Thinking)
"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."
- Robert Grosseteste
(Related: Strangers)
"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 J. Harris
(Related: Life, People, Strangers, World)
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Art, Religion, Economics, Spring, Strangers)
"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
(Related: Happiness, Awards, Fact, Friends, Strangers)
"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."
- Hesiod
(Related: People, Land, Strangers)
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Beauty, Light, Strangers)
"I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty."
- Louise Jameson
(Related: Love, Music, Poetry, Career, Fun, Rest, Strangers, Witty)
"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Happiness, Gardens, Strangers)
"When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!"
- David Starr Jordan
(Related: Religion, Moon, Strangers)
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Indifference, Lies, Strangers)
"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
- Alan King
(Related: Marriage, Nature, Fighting, Strangers)
"Strangers still leave me self-conscious."
- Alan Ladd
(Related: Self, Strangers)
"I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers."
- Ali Landry
(Related: Meeting, Strangers)
"It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people."
- Sheryl Lee
(Related: Time, People, Bed, Clothes, First, Strangers)
"People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine."
- David Letterman
(Related: People, Sharing, Strangers)
"Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film."
- Donal Logue
(Related: Thought, Film, Strangers, Struggle)
"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
(Related: Women, Wife, Ladies, Heroes, Husbands, May, Strangers, World)
"Good things happen when you meet strangers."
- Yo-Yo Ma
(Related: Strangers)
"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
- Shirley MacLaine
(Related: People, Fear, Friends, Strangers)
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
- Shirley MacLaine
(Related: People, Fear, Friends, Strangers)
"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Love, Country, Liberals, Manners, Strangers)
"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
(Related: Opportunity, Possibility, Communication, Fraud, Internet, Strangers, Today, World)
"I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers."
- Armistead Maupin
(Related: Faith, Nature, Human nature, Strangers)
"I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world."
- Adrian Mitchell
(Related: Strangers, Talking, Want, World)
"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers."
- Mary Tyler Moore
(Related: Strangers)
"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: People, Ethics, Strangers)
"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
- Max Muller
(Related: Strangers)
"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Acting, Neighbors, Strangers)
"How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!"
- Hortense Odlum
(Related: Death, Life, Husbands, Reality, Strangers, Wives)
"Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Friends, Fun, Strangers)
"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers."
- Natalie Portman
(Related: Family, Sex, Actors, Consequences, End, Friends, Nudity, Strangers, Want)
"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"
- Noel Redding
(Related: First, Strangers)
"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
- George Sand
(Related: Admiration, Familiarity, Strangers)
"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
(Related: Wife, Character, Man, May, Old, Philosophy, Pleasure, Strangers)
"That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself."
- Paul Sarbanes
(Related: Power, Kindness, Leading, Now, states, Strangers, United, World)
"More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady."
- Amy Sedaris
(Related: Men, Women, Lady, Girls, Pretty, Ugly)
"The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun."
- Jerry Seinfeld
(Related: People, Friends, Fun, Strangers, Talk)
"For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness."
- Georg Simmel
(Related: Reason, Strangers)
"The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things."
- Todd Solondz
(Related: Funny, Now, Saying, Strangers)
"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers."
- Adlai E. Stevenson
(Related: Men, Strangers)
"Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another."
- Parker Stevenson
(Related: Strangers, Want)
"If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Family, Gay, Law, Living, Strangers, Will)
"Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become."
- Leo Szilard
(Related: Work, Being, Friends, Memory, Solitude, Strangers, Years)
"One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics."
- Lewis Tappan
(Related: Men, Amusement, Prison, Strangers)
"In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan."
- John Thorn
(Related: Challenge, Community, Pride, Strangers)
"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Health, Admiration, Strangers, Support)
"Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life."
- Suzanne Vega
(Related: Life, Embarrassment, Sense, Strangers, Writing)
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
- Tennessee Williams
(Related: Kindness, Strangers)
"For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me."
- Viktor Yanukovych
(Related: People, Strangers)
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Friends, Strangers)
"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give."
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
(Related: Business, Time, People, Advice, Being, Strangers)