Familiar Quotes

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

The food to me is just a hook, it's a button, it happens to be the social construct and the cultural totem that I'm most familiar with. So of course I built the show around food because it's where I'm familiar.

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.

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.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

Your body will never be familiar.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

At the time I wasn’t really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that ’cause they regular people just like everybody else.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.