#stranger

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#close #economics #kin #religion #root

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. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#ask #because #come #dispute #friend

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#bad people #equal #good #good people #me

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#excellent #exercise #i #i do #i think

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#nothing #reality #sort #stranger #than

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

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

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

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#fair #fight #get #jungle #never