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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

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.

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Your body will never be familiar.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.