I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.
The truth, however, was stranger still.
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline. . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P. T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.
I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.
Strangers are what friends are made of.
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.
When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.
Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.
Truth is stranger than fishin.