Top 25 Familiar Stranger Quotes
#1. 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
#3. A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
Jhumpa Lahiri
#4. From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#5. Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali
#6. He assumed his stillness like a shield, impervious and impenetrable; she wondered if it hid a total stranger or someone as familiar as to her as his name.
Patricia A. McKillip
#7. Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Mark Twain
#8. Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
Ani DiFranco
#9. I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.
Robert Ryan
#10. I had longed to come home but now that I was there, it wasn't much fun. Home wasn't the same if I couldn't sleep in my own bedroom or use the bathroom by myself. I felt like a stranger in those familiar rooms.
Peg Kehret
#11. God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."
N. T. Wright
#12. Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#13. Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.
Cassandra Clare
#14. Why good news involved the man being pounded, Ian had never understood, but he knew that the gestures made Mac, Cam and Hart happy. Ian stood quietly and took their hand claps, arms around his shoulders, liking that he was part of them, brothers who had never deserted him.
Jennifer Ashley
#15. My production style is all about imagination. I want my audience to use their imagination when they watch my videos. My goal is for my voice to be that little hope of encouragement in your head when you walk out your door.
Michelle Phan
#16. It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.
Jonathan Haidt
#17. I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#18. Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.
Paul Bloom
#19. The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Fritz Kreisler
#20. There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created
Cristina Henriquez
#21. We take our reflections for granted all our lives, until the hour comes when our eyes search for the familiar features and find instead the image of a stranger.
George R R Martin
#22. Sometimes it feels as if I am living with a man who I don't know. A man whose face seems familiar but remains a stranger.
Mia Asher
#23. The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.
Aristotle.
#24. Men are destined to love woman, not to expect love but just to love them.
M. T. Panchal
