Best Familiar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 31

Source: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

“In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.”

World Eye Known Century Details Familiar Mechanism Accurate Sophisticated 19th Century Outside World Anatomy Astounded

Author:Michael Behe

“The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.”

Notion Familiar Territory Explaining Hood

Author:Scott McCloud

“Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature”

Source: The Sufis

“Be neither too remote nor too familiar.”

Familiar

Author:Prince Charles

“I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.”

Ifs Want Writing Character Models My Friends Decided Series Familiar Manhattan

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.”

Thinking Sometimes Feelings Seems Turns Bits Tvs Familiar Odd Realising Turn-on

Author:Alan Parker

“And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.”

Moving Millions Produce Higher Familiar Faster Forks Tuning Moving Parts

Author:K. Eric Drexler

“One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!”

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.”

Purpose Consciousness Meditation Source Conscious Ultimate Familiar Primaries Inner Life Source Of Life

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.”

Facts Science Vision Poet Familiar Inventor

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.”

“I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as if God had sent in a team of the world's finest artists overnight-and I was privy to the opening day of his spectacle. As I slowly drove along this festive row, leaves danced in the air and brushed against my windshield. It seemed as if I had landed in Oz. I was strongly tempted to get out and clap at God's imagination.”

Ifs World Artist Fall Imagination Beauty Air Team Driving Intense Familiar Opening Finest Tempted Festive Opening Day

Author:Sheila Walsh

“To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.”

Years Children Character Feelings Wonder Childhood Talent Genius Mark Privilege Appearance Familiar Adulthood Novelty Sense Of Wonder

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang on to, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past... And into a future that didn't require lies or excuses, because what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary-and not hing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal.”

Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.”

“Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.”

“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.”

“Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”

Way Events Familiar Prophecy Persistent Calamity

Book:The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.”

Children Home Felt Feet Familiar Forbidden Homeland Cemetery

Book:Legends of Our Time

Source: Legends of Our Time

“If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.”

Ifs Country Fall Military Conscience Practicals Familiar Guilty Operations Torture Tactics Military Operations

Book:Select Speeches of Kossuth

Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth

“Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.”

Giving Mean Tongue Familiar Vulgar Polonius

Author:William Shakespeare

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

Men Men And Women Familiar Goddess Familiarity

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.”

Needs States Suffering Felt Familiar Sensibility Organisms Uneasy

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…

“Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.”

Heart Ends Home Lasts Journey Mets Travel Meetings Familiar Shakes Far Away Unfamiliar End Of Journey

Book:The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

“The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.”

Ideas Seems Lying Ability Highest Mark Familiar Originality Miscellaneous

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.”