Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from… — George Eliot
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. — George Gissing
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be… — Henry David Thoreau
The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before.… — Elie Wiesel
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of… — Lajos Kossuth
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. — William Shakespeare
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. — Joseph Addison
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it… — Marcel Proust
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… — Mark Twain
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far,… — Cynthia Ozick
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Familiar things are a comfort to us all. — Andy Rooney
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy… — Brooks Atkinson
There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the… — Robert Benchley
The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible. — Pat Robertson
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect… — Esther Dyson
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer
Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. — David Naughton
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. — Marc Newson
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun… — Marcel Duchamp
I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face. — Mary-Louise Parker
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that,… — Ashley Rickards
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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