Familiar Quotes
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.
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.
I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man that smells 4like liquiid garbage, or ocean breeze?
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists
Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.
Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in
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.
Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.