Familiar Quotes
Familiar Quote of the day
Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence.
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
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The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.
You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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.
It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.
Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!
You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
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.
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.
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.
There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar
It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.
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.
When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.
I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.