Quotes of: Stranger Keyword

The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.

Stranger in a Strange Land

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

Stranger in a Strange Land

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Stranger in a Strange Land

His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.

The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

Strangers on a Train

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

The Stranger

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

The Stranger

Toraf nods in all seriousness. “Humans eat sand. That’s why they spend so much time on land”.

The Stranger

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

The Outsider

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Peaches for Father Francis

You try almost dying, being chased, then hopping in a car with a complete (horny) stranger.

Playing with Fire

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Pride and Prejudice

Don’t expect my hand to extend out of her vagina and accept the charity of strangers.

This Book Has No Title

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

Voss

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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

For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.

Sarah McLachlan

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

Stranger in a Strange Land

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

Hilary Mantel

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Nouriel Roubini

'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

Patricia Marx