#ranger

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ↗

— Robert Heinlein Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

#love #robert-heinlein #stranger-in-a-strange-land #inspirational

You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal! ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

...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.

#roads #strangers #travel #traveling #inspirational

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. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#children #decided #die #fight #go

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

#avarice #house #love #love is #stranger

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#after #also #because #been #feel

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority. ↗

— Thomas Cavendish

#authority #honour #men #see #strangers

When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#bounty #canadian #child #distress #girl

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#always #aspects #clamour #competence #fame

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far