Familiar Quotes

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar… — Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. — Mark Twain
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels,… — Charles Dickens
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown. — Alan Cohen
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. — William Barrett
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or… — Henry David Thoreau
I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was. — Mitt Romney
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus… — Linus Pauling
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how… — Leonardo da Vinci
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical,… — Cary Fowler
We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a… — Maureen Dowd
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head. — Damon Wayans, Jr.
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass… — Gary Wolf
Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But… — Gary Wolf
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that… — Laura Bell Bundy
Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person… — Daniel Kahneman
I am not a stickler for Indian food, but by the third day or so I start looking for something familiar to eat. I have… — Shaan
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with… — Viswanathan Anand
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of… — Alan Alda
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best… — Twyla Tharp
I really love Anglo music, and the language as well. Like, my kids, they - born here, Miami. So I just - a little bit… — Juanes
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely… — Jonathan Kozol
As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because… — Martin Parr
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions,… — Peter Abrahams

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