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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows...

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Quote by Francis Bacon about world, man

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about fight, children, death, man

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fiction, truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fiction, truth

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing...

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about things, woman, man

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.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about dispute, judges, contentment

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, ...

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Quote by Agatha Christie about children, nothing, world

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about interest, word, perfection, people

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Quote by William Faulkner about art, life, artists

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about goodnes

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, saints, faith, destiny, religion, death, being, contentment, life

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close...

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about opinion, art, magic, spring, religion

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in...

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Quote by Khalil Gibran about death, poets, people

Poem: the stranger from my heart.

Poem: the stranger from my heart.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms, heart

If we will deny the longing of love, we will lose even...

If we will deny the longing of love, we will lose even the last address of the stranger inside us.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about longing, wisdom, love

No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten...

No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about solitude, wisdom

A little flower that blooms in May, A lovely sunset at...

A little flower that blooms in May, A lovely sunset at the end of the day, Someone helping a stranger along the way, That's heaven to me.

SQuote by Sam Cooke about haven

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