Familiar Quotes - Page 33

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  Andy Rooney

  Comfort, Familiar Things, Familiarity

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• We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Differences, People, Sound

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

  Robert Benchley

  Space, Tongue, Moments

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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

  Pat Robertson

  Way, Knowing God, Knows

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, Perfect, World

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Numbers, Safe, Repetition

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

  Louis Nizer

  Art, Renewal, Fine

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

  Elihu Root

  War, Civilization, Causes

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memories, Thinking, Games

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• That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Intelligence, Gulls, Ghost

  Sonnet 86

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• This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

  Asa Gray

  Names, Substance, Matter

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.

  James Fenton

  Hymns, Practice, Four

  "Changing rooms" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

  Donny Osmond

  Song, Artist, Play

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• I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

  Youssou N'Dour

  People, Islam, Want

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• Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

  Denis McDonough

  Sunday, Community, Afternoon

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• Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

  Hugh Mackay

  Ideas, Choices, Culture

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• Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.

  Richard V. Allen

  Practice, Effort, Leader

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

  Ehud Barak

  Israel, Knows

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• Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

  Jason Biggs

  College, Leaving, Fresh Start

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• When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Order, Curves

  "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• 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

  Dream, New Relationship, Giving

  "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

  Lenora Crichlow

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

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• I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  People, Important, Different

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• National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

  Lois Capps

  Osteoporosis, Prevention, May

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