#strangers

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#dependent #deteriorated #economic #find #happened

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#attached #great #ice #large #lump

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him. ↗

— Phaedrus

#fun #him #make #strangers

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not. ↗

— Robert Henri

#strangers #art

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#strangers #death

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #stars #strangers #victor-hugo #love

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#foreigners #home #settling #strangers #men

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare. ↗

— Mike McIntyre

#helping-others #kindness #strangers #charity

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge. ↗

— Cassia Leo

#strangers #home