#ranger

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#friends #i #makes #more #people

Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#romance #stephanie-plum-ranger #funny

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#acutely #aware #because #cell #cell phones

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#decided #faith #haven #human #human nature

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. ↗

— John Mayer

#everybody #going #just #my own #own

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#big city #city #companionship #early #friendship

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. ↗

— George McGovern

#handicap #i #most #painful #presence

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#any #everything #guarded #i #stranger

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#help #i #live #place #rush