Simmel The Stranger Quotes & Sayings

It seemed nice. They all seemed nice. I had no framework for discrimination. — Graeme Simsion

The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427. — Carroll Shelby

I went with him to the Opera Orchestra, even though the programs were so boring and dragged on so long that I feared I might actually black out and topple into the aisle. — Anonymous

A "file" was originally - in sixteenth-century England - a wire on which slips and bills and notes and letters could be strung for preservation and reference. Then came file folders, file drawers, and file cabinets; then the electronic namesakes of all these; and the inevitable irony. Once a piece of information is filed, it is statistically unlikely ever to be seen again by human eyes. — James Gleick

We know that Rangi can at least mutter because Digger Gibson says he used to talk to the bear. In his group home for orphaned Moa boys, Rangi had a pet cinnamon bear. I saw her once. She was just a wet-nosed cub, a cuff of pure white around her neck. Rangi found her on the banks of the Waitiki River and walked her around on a leash. He filed her claws and fed her tiny, smelly fishes. They shot her the day his new father, Digger, came to pick him up.
"Burying that bear," I overheard Digger tell Mr. Oamaru once. "The first thing we ever did together as father and son."
Rangi's given us this global silent treatment ever since, a silence he extends to people, animals, ice. — Karen Russell

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. — Carlos Fuentes

Our mind cannot be without fear and our head cannot be held high when we become slaves to materialistic values , always wondering why my car is not bigger and better than my neighbours car and in that process forget our human values like dignity, humility , integrity and humanity. — Jeroninio Almeida

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. — Georg Simmel

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious. — Molly Ivins

That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too. — Leslie A. Gordon