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Familiar acts are beautiful through love. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. -- Charles Lamb
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -- Max Planck
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. -- Fred Rogers
So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone. -- Corey Taylor
Familiar things are a comfort to us all. -- Andy Rooney
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. -- T. S. Eliot
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. -- Justin Kaplan
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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 with it -- Mark Twain
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 with it. -- Mark Twain
Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual. -- Davy Jones
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. -- Mary Oliver
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. -- Charles Lamb
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. -- Ambrose Bierce
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. -- Joseph Addison
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. -- Ernest Renan
Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin. -- Bryant H. McGill
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was. -- Mitt Romney
Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way. -- Arthur Zajonc
Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus! -- T. B. Joshua
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. -- Lin Yutang
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. -- John Henry Newman
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence. -- John C. Maxwell
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. -- Satyajit Ray
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. -- William Osler
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. -- William S. Burroughs
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. -- W. H. Auden
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it. -- Sally Ride
Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all. -- Donald Judd
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. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures. -- Bryant H. McGill
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 menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. -- Wallace Stevens
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. -- Anais Nin
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture. -- Jane Smiley
I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do. -- J. R. Martinez
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 food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. -- Margaret Mead
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons. -- Sara Zarr
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -- Alan Cohen
We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. -- Larry Ellison
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. -- Bono
In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.' -- Gretchen Rubin
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. -- Henry Rollins
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense. -- Jennifer Carpenter
When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.' -- Faith Evans
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 good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! -- Faith Hill
My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that. -- Alison Sweeney
We pardon familiar vices. -- Seneca the Younger
Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange. -- Holly Golightly
In marketing, the familiar is everything. -- Nicolas Roeg
Your body will never be familiar. -- Leonard Cohen
How wondrous familiar is a fool! -- Moby
No season now for calm, familiar talk. -- Homer
Everything I am familiar with is gone. -- Marie Lu
Be neither too remote nor too familiar. -- Prince Charles
I'm not familiar with the metric system. -- Patton Oswalt
Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with. -- Jeffery Deaver
All objects lose by too familiar a view. -- John Dryden
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. -- Edgar Degas
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. -- Jeanette Winterson
The familiar changes as we cling to it. -- Mason Cooley
The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. -- Marcel Proust
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. -- Ray Bradbury
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. -- John Knox
Some stories are so familiar its like going home. -- Louisa May Alcott
Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar. -- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness -- Tablo
There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar. -- Kenny Werner
Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess -- Scott Westerfeld
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. -- George Gissing
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar. -- Keith Carradine
The novelty we want is always close to the familiar. -- Mason Cooley
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. -- Blaise Pascal
The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange. -- Mason Cooley
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. -- Christoph Waltz
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few -- Benjamin Franklin
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. -- James F. Cooper
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine! -- Margaret Atwood
The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar. -- Mason Cooley
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. -- Bharati Mukherjee
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar. -- Adam Johnson
Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks. -- Lauren Myracle
Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. -- David Naughton
I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with. -- Navid Negahban
Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it. -- Koushun Takami
New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. -- Samuel Johnson
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. -- Publilius Syrus
I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me. -- Brian Eno
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. -- Samuel Johnson
Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with. -- Eli Roth
I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it. -- Jeremy Shada
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. -- Jane Hirshfield
Outside Ted (Washington) and Bobby (Hamilton), nobody was familiar with (the 3-4), -- Warren Sapp
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. -- William Shakespeare
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. -- Brent Scowcroft
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar. -- Bobby Jones
I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. -- Gretchen Rubin
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. -- Publilius Syrus
My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice. -- Jennifer Hudson
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar. -- Livy
Are you familiar with that play?In fact, we're almost living it! -- Michael Buckley
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new -- Rory Sutherland
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? -- Tom Stoppard
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. -- Oscar Wilde
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance. -- Mason Cooley
The choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. -- Andrea Goeglein
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. -- Louisa May Alcott
We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women, -- Confucius
The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. -- Robert Quine
We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. -- Gijs de Vries

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