I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason. Fidel Castro
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical” state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us. Nyanaponika Thera
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. Wallace Stevens
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures. Bryant H. McGill
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception. Napoleon Bonaparte
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Joseph Addison