#stranger

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#god #gods #human #live #most

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out. ↗

— Martha Raddatz

#hard #i #i am #know #land

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#among #apart #being #god #marked

Never floss with a stranger. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#floss #never #stranger

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗

— James Wolcott

#carrying #digital #flame #get #how

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. ↗

— Max Muller

#child #learns #soon #strangers

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#bottom #enmity #indifference #lies #strangers

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#born #event #live #single #slowly

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #cast #character #common #common man

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#fiction #i #i think #know #making