Stranger in a strange country.
Sophocles
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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.
G. K. Chesterton
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G. K. Chesterton
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
Arabian Proverb
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
Henry David Thoreau
He holds no hard feelings. A lot of times the truth is stranger than fiction. This is an unusual case. In 15 years, I have never seen anyone come up on these charges.
James Leavitt
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Vladimir Nabokov
So far, the serial killer has targeted three known prostitutes who got into a car with a stranger, were shot to death and then dumped into secluded areas.
Louis Bolden
Some users will provide their password to a stranger who says he is from their company's IT department.
Amir Lubashevsky
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
I never meet a stranger. You have to know how to talk to someone.
Richard Wallace
I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
Alfred Edward Housman
I assume I'm not (going to start), but you never know. Stranger things have happened.
Jason Schmidt
I've always enjoyed helping the people. I don't believe in meeting a stranger.
Dennis Mitchell
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.
William Morris
This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." And he's shot down. That's not the American way of life. A man is innocent until he's proved guilty.
Marguerite Oswald
It's really nice because nobody feels like a stranger.
Miguel Garcia
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.
Karen Armstrong
That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.
H. P Lovecraft
He was a leader. Everybody liked him. He has a great personality. He's never met a stranger.
Jim Simmons
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Andreas Capellanus
It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.
Henry Martyn
Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.
Robert Blair
When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.
Michael Stipe
He was a stranger to everybody but everybody knew who he was and would give him rides and stuff, he was kind of his own little person in his own little world.
John Schwandt
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov
Parents teach their children stranger danger, but they also need to be teaching them about dealing with dogs.
Hugh Wirth
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner
More and more same-sex couples are having children, and we in society can't pretend they aren't. In states like Florida, you are a legal stranger to the child you brought into this world and helped raise. That is a horrible public policy that harms children.
Karen Doering
We look at does a person have a prior sexual offense? Does the offender have a prior non-sexual record? Has that offender offended against a stranger. So, the relationship of the offender to the victim tells you something about the type of risk they pose.
Georgia Cumming
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
Paul Auster
We tend to improvise and expand on the songs when we're on stage, and on the last couple of CDs, it was fine to put out something that felt unfinished, because we knew we were going to expand on it live. With 'Stories of a Stranger,' we were focused on how strong each song could be.
Chris Culos
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.
Harriet Tubman
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Great friend to me, the people of Clarendon County and all South Carolinians. Alex never met a stranger or a person he wasn't willing to help.
Jim Clyburn
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark Twain
We wanted to amplify [Alfie's] philosophizing and we felt it would be better if he were a bit of a stranger in this land. A bit of an outsider. And we thought a European commenting on American culture would be interesting. And put him a little bit as they say, 'A fish out of water' with American women.
Charles Shyer
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Stella Benson
The police were immediately notified. They did not confirm whether the incident did occur. But we do think this is a good time to review stranger danger information with students.
Linda Gann
He wasn't like glamorous. Of all the people watching I'm sure there were a lot of people into him, … obsessed with him, some women out there that were in this fan club. People are watching the news every night; there's this intimate relationship with this stranger.
Martin Dory
The first time we came down here, we enjoyed it so much. When we go to other schools -- even when it's cold or raining -- we support the team. It's the camaraderie with other fans that makes it fun. We see everybody having fun. Nobody's a stranger.
Patti Johnson
Don't borrow money from a neighbour or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
Lord Burleigh
It took two hours before I got a ride. I felt like a stranger in my own town.
Walter White
It is scary, scary and rare. Because what we know is most sexual assaults, the victim and the perpetrator know each other to some degree. So stranger assaults only make up about 20 percent of the sexual assaults we see and for them to come within days of each other is very rare and very frightening.
Janine D'anniballe
The people are very nice. They're friendly. It's like you don't meet a stranger at these events because you've got Elvis as your common ground.
John Dawson
If you die and leave property to your partner, you're taxed on it as if you left it to a stranger. You can give your partner only $11,000 as a gift, but if you're married, you can give your wife unlimited gifts.
Charles Merrill
Just like anyone's pet, you can't walk up and grab them. They know their owner, but you're a stranger.
George Strobl
Your house is essentially having a conversation with a stranger - hopefully a buyer. It's the same thing in social circles; you don't talk about controversial things with a stranger.
Julie Dana
If a stranger comes up, he joins the group and you begin to talk among yourselves. It's a very social experience.
Julie Sahni
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.
Haniel Long
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Frederic Raphael
We knew he would have a little bit of jitters because he needed 14 points to get 1,000. He didn't have a good shooting game. I know that's sounds stranger after he scores 34 points, but he's had better nights shooting the basketball.
Jason Bumblis
To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind; and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.
Adam Ferguson
It's not the stranger jumping out of the bushes. Yes, that does happen, but 80 percent of the time, it's a friend, family member, someone in your peer group, somebody trusted to the individual.
Tracy Johnson
Kevin convinced us that his motivation was one of pure altruism and that it was important to him to help a stranger in this way.
Belinda Wright
My first death penalty victory--made on behalf of the single most offensive legal argument I've ever made. There was no doubt in my mind, in the minds of my colleagues in the public defenders' office or in the minds of ... the Florida Supreme Court that domestic homicide cases tended to be treated very differently from stranger killings.
Michael Mello
It's terrific for us and the Marquette community, which is no stranger to quality hockey. There's not a better place in the country where we fit than in Marquette.
Michael Santos
I want to express my regret to the Reed family, and to the Native American community. He was a stranger to me, but he was a friend and a family member to others.
Thomas O'brien
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!
Sasha Azevedo
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.
Jill Eikenberry
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman
You can't ignore the 800-pound gorilla: There's no shortage of post-9/11 jitters. I don't think anybody likes sitting down next to a stranger for five hours.
Wes Craven
I don't want some stranger coming into my house, ... I don't know what's going to let me trust somebody else again.
Jeffrey Katz
I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He was very low-key.
Dennis Stock
Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
Marguerite Duras
Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
William Randolph Hearst
The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.
Susan Hering
The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.
Daniel Bell
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Brad Holland
I think we're just on the outside of having a good chance to win the championship. So, if we were to do it, it would be spectacular. It would be a long shot, but, I'll tell you what, stranger things have happened.
Carl Edwards
Your thoughts are the strangest place that you've ever been, ... Stranger even than Los Angeles/It's like a cinema where they never ask you to leave.
Roddy Woomble
He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the whole thing. He's just a very different man.
Rebecca Loos
In North Carolina, we are no stranger to hurricanes, but hopefully, federal funding will remain in place.
Everett Clendenin
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
Ernest Renan
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