Top Familiar Quotes
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
Michael Behe
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer 
77% of people like this quote
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
70% of people like this quote
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
Michael Behe
67% of people like this quote
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
63% of people like this quote
The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
63% of people like this quote
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs
63% of people like this quote
Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.
John Hench
62% of people like this quote
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
William H. Hunt
62% of people like this quote
It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.
Latrell Sprewell
61% of people like this quote
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
Brent Scowcroft
59% of people like this quote
Popular Familiar Authors
Mason CooleyAmbrose BierceH. L. MenckenGilbert K. ChestertonEric HofferAldous HuxleyHenry MillerW. Somerset MaughamKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelJoseph AddisonCharles BaudelaireBryant H. McGillJohn DrydenAlfred North WhiteheadHenry A. Kissinger
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