#familia

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#dead #especially #europeans #experienced #familiar

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#aggressor #dictatorial #familiar #goals #his

Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#counterparts #familiar #girl #how #i

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affects #familiar #familiar things #finding #foreign

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#aided #ancient #beneath #came #diligent

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ↗

— George Gissing

#event #familiar #persistent #prophecy #way

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#originality #plagiarizing #something #unfamiliar #usually

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#companions #days #faces #familiar #gone

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #lot #mainstream #only #population