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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. — John Galsworthy

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. — Bharati Mukherjee

It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health. — M. Scott Peck

Same seeks same; we search out the familiar. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

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

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar. — Marilynne Robinson

It wasn't that pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you. — Hugh Howey

For a moment my hands stopped aching from the cold, and instead longed for the familiar feel of music running through them. — Patrick Rothfuss

The Tibetan word for meditation is gom, which can be more literally translated as "become familiar with. — Lodro Rinzler

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. — Ani DiFranco

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks. — Lauren Myracle

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

How wrong we are to ignore our hearts to follow the familiar path. — Nikki Rowe

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches. — Clare De Graaf

Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way? — Jose Antonio Bowen

She felt a budding loneliness, and with it came the familiar emptiness that once threatened to swallow her whole. — Sarah McCoy

My head didn't ache, but my heart did. The longing for Aspen's arms was so familiar, it was like it never left. — Kiera Cass

He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home. — Adam Haslett

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

What are you two doing barefoot and half naked in the mud?" asked a familiar voice. "Looking for truffles, I hope? — Leigh Bardugo

A world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there's nothing to learn, — Yanko Tsvetkov

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. — Oscar Wilde

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar. — Mason Cooley

He shrugged, facing the fire. But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. — Patrick Rothfuss

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role. — Liz W. Garcia

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. — Logan Pearsall Smith

The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life. — Charles Willson Peale

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The sexiest part of strangeness is its most familiar quality. — Beryl Dov

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. — John Henry Newman

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. — William Barrett

The changes in her are like music missing the refrain. The song's transformed, though what's left remains familiar. — Corrine Jackson

The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed. — Philip Larkin

Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.' — Camren Bicondova

We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things. — Corey Ann Haydu

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

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles. — Michel De Montaigne

Political scandals, economic disaster, suffering in all its familiar forms - these were the daily staple of a disaster-prone, uneasy planet. — Alexander McCall Smith

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. — Herb Ritts

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. — Joseph Addison

In marketing, the familiar is everything. — Nicolas Roeg

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language. — Narendra Modi

In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author. — Donald Maass

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way. — Arthur Zajonc

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake. — Abraham Verghese

It's an old and familiar feeling. The emphasis is on how familiar it feels. — Michelle Skeen

Ahhhh. The comfort of a familiar routine out in the desert of unfamiliar exploration. Dark chocolate for the soul. — Neil M. Hanson

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. — Monique Truong

The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood. — Barbara Demick

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question. — Kristin Cashore

She put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, tasting the familiar taste of nicotine, smoke, and impending lung cancer. It felt good. She — Mike Omer

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. — Philip Guston

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room. — Frank E. Peretti

Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen. — Lee Siegel

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar. — Terry Tempest Williams

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African. — Sefi Atta

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. — Eugene Ionesco

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. — Becca Fitzpatrick

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

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

You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter Pan's adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens. — J.M. Barrie

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women, — Confucius

Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair ... Wait a damn minute. — Ilona Andrews

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm. — Lucy Freeman

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke

As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent. — Albert Camus

You have Charcy. I have Fortaine. He stared at the words, written in familiar, unmistakable handwriting. I'll receive you at my fort. * — C.S. Pacat

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. — Alice Meynell

Silas straightened in his seat, clearly uneasy. "This is so bad for my asthma," he said, the familiar phrase coming from him startling her. — Kim Harrison

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. — Gretchen Rubin

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it. — Charles Dickens

they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes. — C.S. Lewis

I'm not familiar with the metric system. — Patton Oswalt

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. — Publilius Syrus

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

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. — Barbara Bush

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. — Marcus Aurelius

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar
and so very sad: What is this you have done? — Tosca Lee

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time. — Terry Brooks

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

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange. — Gregory Crewdson

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer

You familiar with prison rules, Ali-gator?
Stupid nicknames. They were the equivalent of verbal fungus. You couldn't ever get rid of them. — Gena Showalter

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. — Lord Chesterfield

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That's why we don't know so much about stupidity. — Carl William Brown

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them. — Marcel Proust

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life. — Kate Milford

Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived. — Liane Moriarty

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure. — Maryrose Wood

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings. — Steven Conrad

The familiar changes as we cling to it. — Mason Cooley

Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul. — Truth Devour

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. — Nathan Parsons

Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there. — Walter Benjamin

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar — Marshall McLuhan

We live with a few familiar ideas. Two or three. We polish and transform them according to the societies and the men we happen to meet. — Albert Camus

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