Top 1200 Familiar Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.

God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

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

No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one environmental concern, not something we're going to get to later. And I say that because in that quiet is a whole experience that people can have that reaches to their soul. I like to think of quiet places in nature as the think tank of the soul. It's in these very basic levels that we'll be able to see what the real problem is.

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not require the university for sustenance. And there are still places in the world where there is lively poetry communities largely divorced from academia. That's been destroyed in the US. In the US, famously, there were a lot of counter-spaces that lasted into the 60s and 70s, like the Black Arts Movement. They were systematically broken, often by the government, and the workshop arose in their place.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

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.

Action had to be taken in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, but I am very concerned about the current administration's rhetoric and apparent zeal to expand military action to other places. I'm afraid that terrorism is being used as an excuse, not only for possible military action in such places as Iraq, Iran, and the Philippines, but also for exorbitant increases in defense spending that have nothing to do with terrorism.

The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is absolutely the case. Leading off from formal poetry, there is something about when you pay attention to form and you allow it to have its own laws and you listen to those laws you really do end up in places you wouldn't otherwise go. Which isn't to say that I believe in following the rules when I write. I don't. Each of the forms in my books feels to me new.

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

I have been watching all kind of films and I am a bit familiar with Kannada, Telugu and Tamil.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

How do you think policing is in places like China, or North Korea? Whatever we experience, in terms of our policing, I also wanted to make known that the rest of the world suffers ten times more because of that power dynamic; because of the fact that there is no Posse Comitatus in other places which is what prevents in our country, or what is supposed to prevent the military from taking on a policing role of its own people.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

"Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts, ideas, and productions of human intention, but listening to places - whether it's an urban environment, residential, industrial, or even the farthest corner of the world, in one of our last great quiet places where we can listen to the pure sounds of nature without any human-caused noise intrusions.

Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury. My husband and I are very mindful of what we eat and what we wear. I don't visit places that exploit animals or buy things that are derived from cruelty. I'm sure I'm not perfect, but I make a conscious effort to do no harm and always support people, places, or things that are on the up-and-up.

Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!

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

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

While families in South India are familiar with Soundaryalahari, I wanted others to know of it, too.

For me, working on the sets with Mani Ratnam is so familiar. It is the place where I grew up, so I am not nervous here.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.