Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher… — J. William Fulbright
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As… — Daniel J. Siegel
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. — William Shakespeare
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. — James Boswell
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed… — Peter Drucker
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it,… — Andrea Dworkin
I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues. I am not speaking about the particular ballot issues. Those are… — Mitt Romney
In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to… — Kelly Cutrone
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap… — Margaret J. Wheatley
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of… — George W. Bush
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit… — Harry S. Truman
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven… — Arthur Eddington
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya

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