Become Familiar Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the…
— Donald Cram
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in…
— Galileo Galilei
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Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those…
— Pema Chodron
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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
— William Safire
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To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time…
— Thomas Paine
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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
— George Washington
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I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has…
— Asa Gray
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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and…
— Orson Welles
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when…
— Andre Leon Talley
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I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a…
— Unknown Author
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There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people…
— Guy de Maupassant
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We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.…
— Ford Madox Ford
Who Wrote These Become Familiar Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Become Familiar Quotes as follows: