Quotes about Unfamiliar
The only freedom is the freedom from the known.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
- Deuteronomy 28:49
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
- Acts 17:20
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.
- CS Lewis
All I can say is that he never done nothin like this before.
- Cormac McCarthy
I didn't feel comfortable with this new world. My northern isolation had protected me from all this.
- Janette Oke
To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.
- Lawrence Wright
All of life is a foreign country.
- Jack Kerouac
When God aims us in a new direction, we have to let go of what we've known, be willing to embrace the unfamiliar, and trust that He will sustain us on the journey.
- Stormie Omartian
She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.
- LM Montgomery
To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.
- Edith Wharton
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
- Mark Twain