The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players… — Marcel Dionne Copy Share Image
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar… — Alfons Adetuyi Copy Share Image
Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia.… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many,… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work –… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
“...they were always going somewhere yet seemingly nowhere, some house, some club, some river, some place, all fixed by a nowhere ring… — Ivor W. Hartmann Copy Share Image
Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me… — Beck Copy Share Image