Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own… — Jean Piaget
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary… — Joe Conason
Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK.… — Thuy Trang
This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain… — John McCain
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who… — John Dewey
I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They… — M. Scott Peck
You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. dating is not really something familiar.… — Stockard Channing
Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he… — John L. Parker Jr.
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal… — Paul Shepard
To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . .… — Pauline Gower
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies… — Barbara Deming
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror. — Charles Baudelaire
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to… — Jeffery Deaver
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. — Jacques Audiard
Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence â€¦Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in… — Louis MacNeice
I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections… — Dorothy Height
The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar… — Forrest Church
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage,… — Zelda Fitzgerald

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