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Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
— Ellen Glasgow
I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.
— Kevin Richardson
I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself ...
— Jennifer Haigh
None of us, she thought, wants the world we know to come to an end; we do not want familiar things to be taken from us.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Hey, I'm not judging. I'm familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. She's a riot.
— Marissa Meyer
The emotional and rational networks battle not only over immediate moral decisions, but in another familiar situation as well: how we behave in time.
— David Eagleman
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
— Jeffery Deaver
Usually you just walk and walk among people who are not of your tribe, and then suddenly, there you are, in a place that feels familiar and known.
— Deb Caletti
Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.
— Richelle Mead
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
— Ednita Nazario
If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar?
— Paul Kalanithi
In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.
— Kellie Pickler
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
— Toni Morrison
Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?
— Kirby Larson
Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair - and it's not there.
— Gloria Steinem
Some of the most frequently heard reasons for not establishing an effective digital governance might sound familiar:
— Lisa Welchman
We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A ghost sighting is usually nothing more than your brain trying to put a familiar face on something that does not have a face at all.
— David Wong
they had not come home, but had left one familiar place of painful memory for another strange place with none. The
— Maya Angelou
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
— John Stuart Mill
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
— Clive Barnes
My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described.
— Ian McEwan
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.
— William J. Bernstein
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
When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
— Billy Corgan
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord,'" I whispered, the words familiar from Scripture. "But not this time, God. You had your chance.
— Faith Hunter
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
— Marcel Proust
But now and then there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar.
— George Orwell
If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
— Phyllis Bottome
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
— Christoph Waltz
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
— Bobby Jones
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.
— Trevor Noah
A damsel in complete distress was a burden to her protectors; one familiar with self defence, not as much.
— Grace Draven
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.
— Webb Chiles
Wow," Jake said, his face going blank. "Assface. Is that a technical term? Maybe some kind of psychiatric diagnosis I'm not familiar with?
— Lynn Red
I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.
— Mitt Romney
I'm not familiar with the metric system.
— Patton Oswalt
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
— John Locke
Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.
— David Nicholls
Everyone is familiar with the phrase 'It's not what you know, it's who you know' and that's because it's so often true. You
— Enterprise Nation
Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there.
— Walter Benjamin
I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.
— Michael Scott
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
— Roger Ebert
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
— Henry David Thoreau
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I couldn't help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I'd had it off and on my entire life.
— Drew Nellins Smith
I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
— Navid Negahban
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
— Ann M. Martin
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.
— Gerald M. Weinberg
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
— Joseph Joubert
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:
he never told me he was from another world:
I never told him I was from his future. — Joe Haldeman
he never told me he was from another world:
I never told him I was from his future. — Joe Haldeman
I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
— Sherwood Smith
Research confirms that we are more comfortable with people who are familiar looking, whether we know them very well or have not previously met them.
— Glen Wilson
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
— J.M.G. Le Clezio
I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.
— Dolly Parton