Top 1200 Familiar Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem for the party is, you can't get there from here. You can't start out where the current Republicans are and win back those places. To me, what you have to do is create a different Republican Party that can win in those places.

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where you can meet and communicate, where you can share or receive knowledge, where you can relax and recover. They are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, as of a few years ago, zoos. All of the places have a purpose, as for the most part do the things within them.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.

It's gratifying to hear something familiar and challenging at the same time.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

Like most places, America has always had potent strains of anti-Semitism - crude and polished, K.K.K. and country club. But unlike many places, we have always had important strains of philo-Semitism as well; there is a long American tradition, with both Protestant and Enlightenment roots, of really liking Judaism and the Jews.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

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

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

I played a ton of special teams at LSU. I'm familiar with it, I'm comfortable doing it.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

Everything has such order and everyone is so focused on doing what they're doing that no one ever pays attention to you spinning and dancing around supermarkets. It's something you find in places like supermarkets and airports, where everything is really ordered. There's something about those places that makes you feel really anonymous.

It's always good to feel the love from the fans and see familiar faces.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

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

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

Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you.

Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

Pond's is a name that everyone is familiar with, and I know that I can trust them when it comes to skincare.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well, we've been there," and come back, interesting though it may be. To me, each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research - basic research that can't be done before you go there.

Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

I needed a familiar club that would give me affection, and Sevilla can do that.

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good.