Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes

#1. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harriet Tubman

#3. To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#4. Once you start laughing, you start healing.

Sherry Argov

#5. The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Opting for coziness, having that as your prime reason for existing, becomes a continual obstacle to taking a leap and doing something new, doing something unusual, like going as a stranger into a strange land.

Pema Chodron

#7. Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending.

N.K. Jemisin

#9. If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#10. You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The nip that twitches through your blood is the chill of the sudden suspicion that you are a stranger in a strange land.

Dean Koontz

#12. I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

Chaim Potok

#13. There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.

Eilis O'Neal

#14. To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

Wang Wei

#15. is usually the refuge of incompetence." Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Garrett Schwanke

#16. Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Jerry Pournelle

#18. They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

Graham Greene

#19. traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.

Ibn Battuta

#20. Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Richard Bach

#21. In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Phil Klay

#22. No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

Miranda Hart

#23. That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. In short, Christmas is God's answer to the slavery of self-salvation. Jesus came to liberate us from the pressure of having to fix ourselves, find ourselves, and free ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

#25. It is through the gift of Christ that we receive every blessing. Through

Ellen G. White

#26. Be brave enough to be simple and humble.

Debasish Mridha

#27. When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

Anthony Heald

#28. I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

Martha Raddatz

#29. I don't pay any attention to politics."
"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that either.

Heinlein Robert A.

#30. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

Bram Stoker

#31. Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

Garry Shandling

#32. There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.

David S.Goyer

#33. As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

Mary Church Terrell

#34. I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?

Frank Herbert