I'm not familiar with the metric system.
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event. . . the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or. . . . which the narrator is unable to explain.
Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
How wondrous familiar is a fool!
We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.
Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a modicum of freedom from linguistic frameworks, from familiar mental habits. Anyone who really knows two or more tongues realizes that even that small enlargement of liberty. . . gives him new perspectives, exercizes his soul anew.
It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt. He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.
My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
Steve Hadley is an interesting option as secretary of state because he is somebody that is, you know, familiar to power, served in the White House, and did not oppose Donald Trump the way a lot of the Republican foreign policy establishment did. But his name was not on that list, at least at the moment.
Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.
Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.
If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.