#familia

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #familia




Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.


Barbara Bush


#familiar territory #frees #giving #mind #needs

In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong. That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.


Jennifer Paynter


#jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #marriage #mary-bennet

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.


Scott McCloud


#fairly #familiar #familiar territory #getting #hood

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.


Jean Moulin


#determined #disappear #familiarize #had #hold

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.


Anais Nin


#cease #familiar #function #magic #meaning

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.


Max Planck


#convincing #die #does #eventually #familiar

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.


Kathleen Quinlan


#character #familiar #folks #i #industry

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.


Rihanna


#bored #doing #familiar #get #going

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.


William Safire


#especially #exquisite #feel #flatters #i

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.


Michael Haneke


#dealing #familiar #hysterical #laughing #laughter