Familiar Quotes

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Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other… — Joe Shuster
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off,… — J. B. Priestley
Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and… — Nathaniel Branden
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of… — T.D. Jakes
When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making… — Chogyam Trungpa
When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead,… — Chogyam Trungpa
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no… — Tom Robbins
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year… — Tony Shalhoub
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake. — Abraham Verghese
If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for… — Chris Kilham
Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive… — Robert Kegan
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his… — Plutarch
Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or György], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far from each other… — Gyorgy Lukacs
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after… — Teresa de la Parra
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain… — Philip Kapleau
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers… — Leonard Cohen
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only… — Anais Nin
When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work – when his feet… — J C Ryle
I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man… — Daniel Tosh
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as… — Robert L. Devaney
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. — Jane Hirshfield
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel… — Jason Mraz
My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce'… — Bow Wow
The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his… — Robert W. Firestone

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