Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies… — Elliott Abrams
The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform… — Mary Oliver
Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses,… — Andrew Ryan
Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to… — John Bartlett
There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor… — Cynthia McKinney
If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the… — Curtis Jackson
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We… — Jeanette Winterson
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. — Martin Parr
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies… — Peter York
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar. — Keith Carradine
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. — Willard Van Orman Quine
I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music,… — Robert Jones Burdette
You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable"… — Tama J. Kieves
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,… — Samuel Johnson
At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will… — Frederick Lenz
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with. — Greg Bryk
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
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man… — Joseph Addison
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
How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the… — Charles Lamb
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. — Oscar Wilde
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The… — Wallace Stevens
No season now for calm, familiar talk. — Homer
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies. — Edgar Degas
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. — Joseph Joubert

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