Stranger Quotes

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.