Quotes About Unfamiliar

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

I felt the weight of unmapped worlds, unborn language.

Lo habitual en los sueños son las aventuras extrañas, asombrosas y terribles. Las tierras incógnitas vienen y van. Los sueños épicos se despliegan. Las guerras se luchan y se ganan. Los seres queridos se pierdan y se encuentran. Mientras dormimos, vivimos vidas completamente diferentes. Y después despertamos, con disgusto o alivio, como si no hubiera ocurrido nada.

When we see ourselves and our world defined by stereotypical expectations, the very nature of our engagement alters. And our susceptibility to this transformation of behavior may diminish our capacity to appreciate important nuance in our surroundings. In a world where we're looking for 'familiar' or 'similar' through favorable lenses and seeing 'unfamiliar' as somehow lesser, we are at risk of being blind to the self-evident.

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known

Over the years, I've noticed that most of my colleagues and friends have their own favorite but relatively obscure words that even they aren't familiar with. The

Always along the way we have been able to meet the challenge of unfamiliar situations with confidence and the wise and patient guidance of parents and teachers,

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

when you are in the company of the unfamiliar, you look for unfamiliar wisdom. You'll find lots of it, and it will make you richer.

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

The anger that rose in him was a new thing.

A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.

It's different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in, and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces, and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.