Top 1200 Familiar Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

It's an advantage for me fighting in Japan. I'm familiar there. I have friends there. I've been fighting so long there.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.

Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you a chance to think.

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby.

Reality show TV star is a familiar job, and to knock it would be the height of hypocrisy for someone like me who has made their career on television.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

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

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

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

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

At first, it was really weird after being a touring stand-up comedian that wears just jeans and a shirt. But now, it's almost like when you go from Clark Kent to Superman: "All right, I've got to go put on a suit and interview Justin Trudeau." It feels like it's part of the process. Oddly enough, I've been in enough places - they sometimes send you to places that are a bit scary - that I know how to run in a suit. Like, run fast.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But if you write a history of the whole world, you can't do this. That's the trade-off.

I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.

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

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

I love the idea of women taking control of their money. It's something that many women are not familiar with, but it's crucial.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.