Quotes About Total Stranger

#1. I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.

Lynn Coady

#2. rapes your wife but perfectly legal to kill a total stranger

Clara Salaman

#3. A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

John Fowles

#4. It was hard to understand how you could know someone all your life, think that you knew everything about them, then one Sunday they'd be standing in the kitchen of the flat that you both owned and seem like a total stranger

Sarra Manning

#5. If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

John Berger

#6. To be marching up the street behind red flags inscribed with elevating slogans, and then to be bumped off from an upper window by some total stranger with a sub-machine-gun - that is not my idea of a useful way to die.

George Orwell

#7. Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

Sarah Dessen

#8. [W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Ayelet Waldman

#9. After being married, hearing 'You're hot!' from a total stranger means a hundred times more than hearing it from your husband.

Andrea Savage

#10. I'm not a hundred percent sure why I'm here, only that it feels good to be somewhere where no one hates me. It's sad that I would rather be with a total stranger than with people that should've been my family.

Joan Reginaldo

#11. The idea of bonding or whatever, with you was crazy. The idea of bonding with a total stranger, a stranger that happens to be a werewolf mind you, is beyond my ability to be reasonable about,

Quinn Loftis

#12. Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

Gloria Naylor

#13. Even in these days of eBay and superencrypted anonymous purchasing over the Internet, the safest way to buy stolen stuff is to meet a total stranger and hand over a wedge of untraceable cash. They don't know you, you don't know them - the only problem is where to meet.

Ben Aaronovitch

#14. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger
but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#16. You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Elizabeth Kostova

#17. Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. Do you know why men name their cocks?"
"No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter.
"So most of the major decisions in their lives won't be made by a total stranger.

Linda Howard

#19. A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger. pg. 287

Elise Broach

#20. It's funny how this total stranger could relate to me better than anyone else I'd ever met. It was as if I'd known her my entire life.

Fisher Amelie

#21. When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

Marina Abramovic

#22. 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

#23. A total stranger one black day
knocked living the hell out of me-
who found forgiveness hard because
my(as it happened)self he was
-but now that fiend and i are such
immortal friends the other's each

E. E. Cummings

#24. Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

Will Oldham

#25. The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

Robert Scoble

#26. But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

Haruki Murakami

#27. Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Harper Lee

#28. It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson ... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Davy Crockett

#29. Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. (Steven Levy)

Walter Isaacson

#30. All the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel
the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#31. Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

Christopher McDougall

#32. But when I reached for the knob, it wouldn't turn. The lock was on the outside. Who ever heard of the lock for a door being on the outside? It would be up to another, possibly a total and complete stranger, to decide whether you'd ever be allowed to leave.

Alexandra Kleeman