Friends Strangers Quotes

#1. We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

Tarryn Fisher

#2. If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

Gary Gulman

#4. They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

Nicholas Sparks

#5. Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Natalie Portman

#6. Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends ... that's what makes them friends ...
Pretty Little Liars

Sara Shepard

#7. Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. People change. Feelings fade. Lovers drift. Friends leave. Friends become enemies. Lovers become strangers.
You'll be judged. but still Life Goes On.

Lovely Goyal

#9. When daughters grow up, they become good friends to mothers but when young boys grow up, they become strangers.

Sudha Murty

#10. It's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers.

Drake

#11. Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?"---Connecting

Sandy Sheehy

#13. Strangers are just friends we don't know yet.

Sarah Painter

#14. Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

James Clavell

#15. Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.

Robin Hobb

#16. The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

#17. Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

LZ Granderson

#18. Can you meet me?"
"Sure I can. What else are friends for but swooping in to the rescue when their girlfriends are are being stalked by creepy strangers?

Frankie Rose

#19. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

#20. Strangers will show you the way

But a true friend will escort you,

to your destination.

1st November, 2006

Tushar Mangl

#21. There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

#22. The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

Jerry Seinfeld

#23. Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom

#24. Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

Graham Joyce

#25. According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

Alafair Burke

#26. My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

Andy Behrman

#27. It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Themistocles

#29. Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

Nancy Gibbs

#30. The years rolled slowly by and I found myself alone, surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, found myslef further and further from my home I guess I lost my way - There were og so many roads.

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

#31. you are
as fleetingly beautiful

as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks

a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood

a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.

Sanober Khan

#32. Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

Adam Gopnik

#33. I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.

Scott Stossel

#34. Now Chloe, Tara, and Maddie were real sisters instead of strangers. Friends, even.

Jill Shalvis

#35. As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

Jon Ronson

#36. It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

David Gemmell

#37. We're strangers, we're not friends. I hate this, and I hate them.And I found out that you're angry, and you're sorry you ever met me

Tegan Quin

#38. This was why she enjoyed baking. A good dessert could make her feel like she'd created joy at the tips of her fingers. Suddenly, the people around the table were no longer strangers. They were friends and confidantes, and she was sharing with them her magic.

Marissa Meyer

#39. Its funny how we can go from good friends for months to strangers for years and best friends for hours. Plastic world, realistic people.

Lik Hock Yap

#40. I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Alfred Day Hershey

#41. But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up

Nas

#42. Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Barbara Kingsolver

#43. Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.

Jayme K.

#44. I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

Russell Brand

#45. It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Richard Cobden

#46. Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

Phaedrus

#47. You will find glimpses of my friends, my family, and strangers off the street in everything I write, because I steal from life and then put it in a blender.

Catherine Cruzan

#48. By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.

Simon Mainwaring

#49. Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

Alcuin

#50. The next time you face a room full of strangers ... you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

Lisa Kleypas

#51. I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Mary Schmich

#52. Father God, fill my heart with Your love so that I may pass it on to friends and strangers. Amen. - MARION BOND WEST

Various

#53. If strangers see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they don't know who you are. And if your friends see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they know who you are.

D.E. Stevenson

#54. The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others?

Don DeLillo

#55. It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.

Lauren Lola

#56. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

#57. Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

Elaine Stritch

#58. Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.

Quvenzhane Wallis

#59. If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.

Marsha Blackburn

#60. A majority of my YouTube friends I've made because I made a trip down to California and literally tweeted them saying, 'Hey! Come over - let's shoot something!' And then two strangers will just meet up, talk, and shoot something.

Lilly Singh

#61. Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.

Dalai Lama

#62. The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Chuck Palahniuk

#63. If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine Of Hippo

#64. Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries a sorrow and a struggle. Recognize that we all share a fundamental humanity. Model the

Desmond Tutu

#65. What started as a whisper
Slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen
I don't know where you came from
And I don't know where you've gone
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn

Ben Harper

#66. Permission Marketing is just like dating. It turns strangers into friends and friends into lifetime customers. Many of the rules of dating apply, and so do many of the benefits.

Seth Godin

#67. The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Richard Powers

#68. Strangers are what friends are made of.

Cullen Hightower

#69. There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.

Joyce Rachelle

#70. Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.

Diane Ackerman

#71. It's one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it's the worst when friends become strangers,

Hayley Williams

#72. That's the beauty of traveling. Haven't you caught on yet? There are no strangers here, just friends you haven't met yet.

Karina Halle

#73. My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers who cause me to look at my life and behavior and encourage me to be the best person, mother, daughter, and friend that I can be.

Trista Sutter

#74. No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me

Jonathan Ames

#75. Once there was you and me
We were lovers
We were friends
Before life changed
Before we were strangers
Do you still think of me?

Renee Carlino

#76. Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#77. When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

Oscar Levant

#78. I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

Sanjay Dutt

#79. Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.

Shannon L. Alder

#80. I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

Jeanne Phillips

#81. Your generation has no sense of responsibility to a group, a calling higher than your own. You treat random friends like family and family like strangers. You want to dither your life away, pursuing one pleasure after another. That is not a path; that is a waste of life.

Liz Braswell

#82. It melted my heart, no matter how much strangers love you, like you or praise you but if your closer ones believes in you and your dreams, then you have a life, which is worth it, there is nothing better than friends and family.

Shaikh Ashraf

#83. 'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.

Brandon Stanton

#84. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#85. Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Rod McKuen

#86. We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

John Christopher

#87. It's sad when friends become enemies. But what's even worse is when they become strangers.

Hayley Williams

#88. As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Joy Williams

#89. You do a great many things for strangers, Katarina. What are you willing to do for your friends?

Ally Carter

#90. Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?

Anthony Trollope

#91. That day, so many wept. Young and old, friends and strangers, black and white, men and women wept. The angels wept. Jesus wept. Coach Gabe Lewis, though, with his eyes on the lilies, shed not a single tear.

Nathan Barber

#92. In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends

Kobayashi Issa

#93. The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#94. There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own ...

George W. Bush

#95. The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

Bob Seger

#96. Would all go tell their friends and neighbors and cousins and strangers in the supermarket that we went up for our baptism and sneezed in the holy water.

Brad Meltzer

#97. Strangers are potential friends and potential enemies, but treat them as potential friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#98. You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

William H. McRaven

#99. If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you.

Autumn Doughton

#100. Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson