Quotes About Strangers And Friends

#1. You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor,' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

Gemini Adams

#2. Don't you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn't the mirror hostile enough?

Jeanette Winterson

#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. Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#5. 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

#6. That girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around.

Joan Rivers

#7. We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Bernard Malamud

#8. When I was single, I was convinced my friends who took the plunge and had their first baby were victims of an alien abduction, because they would disappear from the planet and reappear a year later as unrecognizable strangers.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.

Diablo Cody

#10. To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

Seth Godin

#12. If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

Michael Caine

#13. You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Seth Godin

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

Marilyn Ferguson

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Anthony Trollope

#24. Variant selves haunt
the corridors of my brain, people
my novels, crowd in like ghosts
drawn to blood when friends
or strangers tell me secrets,
hand me their troubles,
sweaters knit of hair and wire.

Marge Piercy

#25. So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

Renata Bowers

#26. I can use the house to create a home. I can offer my family, my friends, myself, and even strangers the gift of love by making them feel special when they are in my home.

Sarah Mae

#27. It is more likely that a man and a woman develop romantic feelings for each other when they start dating after they have been friends for some time and feel already attracted to each other, than when they are total strangers trying to make it happen.

Linda Alfiori

#28. If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Cate Blanchett

#29. We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

Brandon Jenner

#30. 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

#31. One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Jean Cocteau

#32. Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Will Rogers

#33. You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Everything they see, hear, feel, touch, or even smell impacts their brain and thus influences the way they view and interact with their world - including their family, neighbors, strangers, friends, classmates, and even themselves.

Daniel J. Siegel

#35. A man friends are more capable of working him harm than strangers; and his greatest
danger lies in his own habits.

Aleister Crowley

#36. The automatic use of Du, even to strangers if they were friends of friends, was very surprising. Sie, it seemed, meant relegation to the outer darkness and people had been known to fight with swords about the matter.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#37. Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers

Ras Kass

#38. I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship that you enjoy personally and creatively, it's fantastic.

Julia Roberts

#39. Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

Gloria Steinem

#40. 12:13 Purpose with resolve to treat strangers as saints; pursue and embrace them with fondness as friends on equal terms of fellowship. Make yourself useful in the most practical way possible. (Eph 3:18)

Francois Du Toit

#41. The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation.

Mark Twain

#42. Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

Seth Godin

#43. Falling in love can happen to complete strangers. Staying in love requires being best friends and that means accepting the person beneath the veneer.

Ellen Hopkins

#44. In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

Holly Near

#45. 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

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

Nas

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

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

Jill Shalvis

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

Scott Stossel

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Robin Hobb

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

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

Nicholas Sparks

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

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

Diane Ackerman

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

Joyce Rachelle

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

Richard Powers

#75. 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

#76. '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

#77. 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

#78. 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

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

Marsha Blackburn

#80. 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

#81. 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

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

Various

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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