Shirley MacLaine Quote

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

• People

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Maya Angelou

• Travel

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

Phaedrus

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

• Fear

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

David Letterman

• Travel

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Fear

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Travel
• Honesty

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

• Friendship

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Jodie Foster

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Jean Reno

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Homer

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Isabelle Adjani

• Fear
• People

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

Leonardo DiCaprio

• Travel

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Steven Soderbergh

• Travel

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Kahlil Gibran

• Death
• Anger

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Javier Bardem

• Faith