#strangers

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan. ↗

— John Thorn

#arose #challenge #clan #community #might

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#almost #certain #complete #details #directly

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#close #economics #kin #religion #root

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. ↗

— Alfred Day Hershey

#awards #bring #colleagues #curious #even

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper. ↗

— Hesiod

#flourishes #give #judgements #just #land

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

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ↗

— Stella Benson

#bond #cursed #families #family #jokes

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. ↗

— Alan King

#fighting #keeping #nature #strangers #us

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers. ↗

— Ali Landry

#date #feel #guys #i #just

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#bed #bodies #clothes #coming #each