Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. votos 3
Jane HirshfieldGreat things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. votos 3
Jean de la BruyereYou're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? votos 3
Tom StoppardRise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. votos 3
George WashingtonIn new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance. votos 3
Mason CooleyThe work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. votos 3
Oliver GoldsmithSomehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. votos 3
Rickie Lee JonesThe familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw? votos 3
Ilsa J. BickA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible. votos 3
Igor StravinskySydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory. votos 3
Richelle MeadWhen a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. votos 3
James BoswellHe who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. votos 3
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelLove hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. votos 3
Dante AlighieriI'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all. votos 3
Edward SnowdenAnyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. votos 3
Sam HarrisI think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings. votos 3
Steven ConradEach undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. votos 3
John Stuart MillA mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. votos 3
Walter J. PhillipsMost people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I've spent my life doing the opposite. votos 3
Marina AbramovicJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with. votos 3
Bobby JonesWho, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. votos 3
Charles ChurchillHow different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests. votos 3
Anne Bosworth GreeneMysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. votos 3
Wynn BullockAnd, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. votos 3
Claude McKayBeauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. votos 3
Joseph AddisonWhen I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with. votos 3
Devon WindsorI think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with. votos 3
Deborah Ann WollI don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face. votos 3
Mary-Louise ParkerPeeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams. votos 3
Suzanne CollinsI'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too. votos 3
Lana Del ReyIt is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy. votos 3
Kenny WernerWhen you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with votos 3
Sophie MarceauSometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar. votos 3
Ron KaufmanIf you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications. votos 3
Henry David ThoreauI wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . votos 3
Jennifer HaighI'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development. votos 3
Manning MarablePeople in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. votos 3
Neil PostmanA great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. votos 3
Christian KeiberThe best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. votos 3
Leo TolstoyBe not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact. votos 3
Theodore ParkerI think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. votos 3
Martin ParrWe are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. votos 3
Henry JamesThough the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. votos 3
John LockeAll that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. votos 3
Marcus AureliusEl hombre es esencialmente un ser social; con mayor razón, se puede decir que es un ser familiar. votos 3
Juan Pablo IIIf one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. votos 3
Phyllis BottomeIt is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. votos 3
William Barrett