Familiar Quotes · Page 10

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

— Benjamin Franklin

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

— Eli Pariser

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

— Oscar Wilde

The life setting had changed, but the rest was all too familiar.

— Paritoshik Sharma

“...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives.”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

— Bharati Mukherjee

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Never stunt your own growth by dismissing something just because it doesn’t feel familiar.”

— Charlamagne Tha God

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to…

— Max Lucado

Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

— T. B. Joshua

I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got…

— Johnny Cash

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

— Camren Bicondova

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not…

— Byron Katie

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. dating is not…

— Stockard Channing

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

— Ellen Glasgow

Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of…

— E. J. Gold

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints…

— Peter Matthiessen

Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the…

— Hank Hanegraaff

I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb…

— M. Ward

The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because…

— Gong Li

I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than…

— M. Scott Peck

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders…

— Joe Conason

Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as…

— Steven Pinker

I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own…

— Michio Kaku

I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher…

— Jamie Foxx

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained…

— Albert Camus

These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in…

— Thomas Paine

To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and…

— Pauline Gower

The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading…

— Yasunari Kawabata

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no…

— Plutarch

...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

— Suzanne Collins

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

— John Dewey

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.

— Steven Conrad

I'm very familiar with World of Sport, some of the characters, and great athletes.

— Tony Khan

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

— Joseph Addison

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

— William Shakespeare