If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
You know people probably don't realize this but I lived in Denver for 10 years as a kid. I was familiar with… — Paul Millsap Copy Share Image
A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . .… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player… — David Porush Copy Share Image
The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc.,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I mean that memory and association come before comprehension, so that one ought to know all good things—fa—with familiarity before one can… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
For people that are degenerates, if you've spent so much time feeling a certain way, it's actually uncomfortable to feel like a… — Jason Gedrick Copy Share Image
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity.… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
“Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth -… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“And the best way to escape the comfortable familiarity of an inherited picture of reality is to try to return to something… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I like having my familiarity and my specific coaches there telling me what I need to do. — Tecia Torres Copy Share Image
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![“The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.” quote by Robert Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5be/robert-thurman-9409_absolutes_the-understanding-of-it-absolute-is-very_855777.jpg)
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