Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints… — Louisa May Alcott
It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere… — Richard Bach
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… — Annie Dillard
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar,… — Jack Kerouac
...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried… — Lois Lowry
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;… — Harold Bloom
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and… — Virginia Woolf
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made… — Paulo Coelho
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But… — Francis Bacon
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the… — Wilkie Collins
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin
Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in… — Elizabeth Kostova
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing… — Octavio Paz
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch… — Toni Morrison
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them… — Andrew Sean Greer
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. — Jeanette Winterson
Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar… — Ezra Taft Benson
After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and… — Tad Williams
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,… — Alexander Pope
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to… — John Stuart Mill
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness,… — Yasunari Kawabata
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. — Deepak Chopra
The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon. — Kim Edwards

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