Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will… — Marguerite Yourcenar
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself,… — Adrienne Rich
What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And… — Martin Heidegger
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott
Yet, when we talked, when we were together, she seemed so familiar. Seemed to know who I was, where I was coming from. She knew… — Julie Anne Peters
It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe… — Tana French
I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You… — Cassandra Clare
And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him… — J R Ward
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,… — John Irving
I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think… — Megan Whalen Turner
Everything I am familiar with is gone. — Marie Lu
The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad,… — Sarah Dessen
I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid… — Sarah Dessen
It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval or disappointment. His… — Steven Furtick
Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory. — Richelle Mead
For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he… — Philippa Gregory
It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar… — David Levithan
I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize,… — Veronica Roth
my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic… — William Styron
Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued with a chuckle.… — Angie Sage
Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died,… — Howard Nemerov
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure… — Mark Twain
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to… — Bill Bryson

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