Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening. — Eminem
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. — Hunter S. Thompson
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. — David Gerrold
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual. — Tim Burton
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger. — Heath Ledger
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for. — Haruki Murakami
Short Strangers Quotes
Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. — Steve Maraboli
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet. — Dave Thomas
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. — William Butler Yeats
I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Why do you put your self-esteem in the hands of complete strangers? — Helena Bonham Carter
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. — Vladimir Nabokov
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
Strangers Image Quotes
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't meet.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. — Shirley Maclaine
A friend may be waiting behind a strangers face.
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Quotes
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
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. — Leo Rosten
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. — Sydney J. Harris
Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional. — Pseudonymous Bosch
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event. — Brock Yates
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so some have entertained angels without knowing.
You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard. — Craig Silvey
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — G. K. Chesterton
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. — Mark Twain
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating. — Greg Cox
Life Is Stranger Than Fiction Quotes
This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted. — Dustin Hoffman
Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand. — Dolph Lundgren
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man. — Mike D
Success occurs when strangers become friends.
It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction. — Hilary Swank
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
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
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
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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. — T. S. Eliot
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
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
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses. — Daniel Berrigan
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
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. — Tecumseh
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind. — Chris Hedges
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger. — Saint Patrick
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell
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
Gold and Bitcoin also hedge against inflation, never pay negative interest, and when held directly are not subject to haircuts and do not depend on strangers keeping their promises. — Nick Szabo
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. — Jane Austen
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. — Chuck Palahniuk
We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. — Amy Carmichael
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever. — Florence King
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
Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth. — J. Vernon McGee
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry. — John Taylor Gatto
Digitally centralized assets are deeply unsafe. Don't put so much of your family's wealth in assets that some stranger can turn on and off like a switch. — Nick Szabo
Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves. — Athanasius of Alexandria
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
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