Familiar Quotes

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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
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. — Nhat Hanh
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. — Sam Harris
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is… — Faith Hill
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at… — Aldous Huxley
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a… — Sebastian Junger
I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who… — Wiz Khalifa
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. — Henry A. Kissinger
Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only… — Madeleine M. Kunin
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old… — Charles Lamb
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a… — Christopher Lasch
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and… — Ang Lee
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. — Dave Matthews
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and… — W. Somerset Maugham
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people.… — Bryant H. McGill
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the… — Margaret Mead
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H. L. Mencken
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that… — Henry Miller
The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar,… — Unknown Author
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. — Toni Morrison
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I… — Elon Musk
Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of… — Nathan Myhrvold
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch… — Nathan Myhrvold

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