Quotes About Familiar

LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. —PSALM 139:1–4

Such audacity could never be faked—Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

berth in a storm, for they were familiar with marksmanship and doubted if the lightning could hit that small stick at a distance of a mile and a half

I've been told that I don't like women. I do like women. I think chicks are cool. I've been told that men don't like women, period. Oh yeah? Who does then? Because women don't like women. Sometimes life looks very familiar. Life often has that familiar look in its eyes. Life is all vendetta, conspiracy, strong feeling, roused pride, self-belief, belief in the justice of its tides and floods. Here is a secret that nobody knows: God is a woman. Look around! Of course She is.

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

That the emptiness in one twin was only a version of the quietness in the other. That the two things fitted together. Like stacked spoons. Like familiar lovers' bodies.

When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar.

I never gave you a chance to set fire to the dry tinder of my heart did it myself doused myself in gasoline, went searching for a match I found it in her a familiar beast of whiskey and jealousy

I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to be familiar about.

I'm the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

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."

Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

I looked up through gritty eyes and there it was across the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, shining like a million jagged shards of light, awe-inspiring, glossy, impossibly condensed and beautiful, a sight that was so familiar from television and films that I couldn't quite accept I was seeing it for real.

Both archetypes were familiar in Clintonworld: the cold-eyed, self-serving strategists who build up themselves by building up one Clinton or both and the sycophants who prove their loyalty to a Clinton by devoting their entire lives to the family. Hillary wanted them to coexist. But

The air had that familiar tang of floor polish, socks and stale dinners that most schools share.

Death ... people nowadays seem to regard as something odd, whereas it is well known to be the commonest thing in the world.

feeling that now familiar change in the phase state of existence, like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.

but the place had a familiar feel.

What I've realized is celebrities are regular people.

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

I've always been a little homemaker.