Traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. — Moroccan Proverbs
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers. — Simon Winchester
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. — Albert Camus
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other. — Zygmunt Bauman
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. — Will Rogers
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him. — Hermann Hesse
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. — Henry James
It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be. — Selma Lagerlöf
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. — Countee Cullen
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A stranger searches for the donkey of another while singing. — Turkish Proverbs
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. — William Butler Yeats
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. — Georg Simmel
The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. — Albert Einstein
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. — Banana Yoshimoto
Stranger In A Strange Land Image Quotes
Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray.
Land Quotes
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander. — Alexander The Great
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. — Thabo Mbeki
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons. — Gene Wilder
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi‘i
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W. E. B. Du Bois
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't meet.
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. — Kalpana Chawla
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? — Steven Wright
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. — H. L. Mencken
When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm. — John G. Lake
Strange Quotes
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. — Ramana Maharshi
How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. — Jim Morrison
There is no beauty without some strangeness.
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. — King Hussein I
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. — Kahlil Gibran
There is no beauty without some strangeness — Edgar Allan Poe
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light. — Milarepa
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. — Charles Bukowski
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Everybody look at you strange, say you changed
Like you work that hard to stay the same. — Jay-Z
Just A Stranger Quotes
Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. — Steve Maraboli
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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. — Barbra Streisand
Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya. — Miranda Hart
We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, “Sadie, you have an audition for a show called ‘Stranger Things’,” and I had just finished binge-watching it in a few days. — Sadie Sink
Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other. — Krista Tippett
A friend may be waiting behind a strangers face.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies. — Sayings
I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper. — Benicio Del Toro
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger — Pico Iyer
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Stranger Quotes
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you. — Hafez
We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence. — Reinhard Bonnke
I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt. — Donald Woods Winnicott
Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges... — George Washington
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so some have entertained angels without knowing.
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. — Melody Beattie
There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet. — Dave Thomas
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord. — Irenaeus of Lyons
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt. — Salvador Minuchin
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head — Mary Church Terrell
I´m a stranger in a strange land. — Carson Mccullers
Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives. — Richard Bach
There is no safety this side of the grave — Robert A. Heinlein
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat. — Robert A. Heinlein
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. — Robert A. Heinlein
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. — Robert A. Heinlein
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes... — Madeleine L'Engle
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein
We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed. — Richard Halliburton
To be a stranger in a strange land:
Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
There where my brother far away is ascending,
The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed. — Wang Wei
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else. — Robert A. Heinlein
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself. — Robert A. Heinlein
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. — Robert A. Heinlein
Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit — Robert A. Heinlein
ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one. — Michael Jackson
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. — Bram Stoker
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. — Robert A. Heinlein
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. — Robert A. Heinlein
You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you. — Frederick Lenz
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. — Robert A. Heinlein
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land . . . — Harriet Tubman
I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out. — Martha Raddatz
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. — Robert A. Heinlein
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
'Lost in Translation' movie says something interesting about the alienation of being a stranger in a strange land, but also of being a celebrity. That kind of feeling of not being in the same strata as everyone else. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg
If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land. — Nicolas Winding Refn
When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land. — Anthony Heald
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all
was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in
de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere. — Harriet Tubman
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner. — Robert A. Heinlein
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