It's nice to see a familiar face.

The unknown is perceived to be riskier than the familiar.

First, apply the dictum of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) that it is better to let them do it than it is to try to do it better for them.

You've also got to let me know that there are touchstones.

He's a somehow very similar face.

But this argument has the familiar whiff of the late stages of empire.

'There is something familiar about that misshaped peasant,' she thought.

In principle, the entire Eurozone forms a single market, but that is not how things work out in practice.

There is a famous saying in America that all politics are local.

Syria s Assad dynasty, however, seems to believe that it can defy that dictum.

To paraphrase Lord Acton s dictum power kills and absolute power kills absolutely.

Seventh No freedom for the enemy of freedom this is a classic saying that applies to the case of the niqab.

Do you know anything about Galileo Galilei? I've heard the name before, but what was it that he did?

The Frenchman?' Oblonsky asked the hall porter, noticing on the hall stand Karenin's overcoat, which he recognized, and a strange, absurd looking paletot with clasps.

In such circumstances, the old adage that the best social welfare program is economic growth is all the more applicable.

Yet when the opinion was released, I provoked a general outcry by quoting it to the assembled journalists.

Stagnation in computer design is not surprising, considering that familiarity is so comfortable.

And in general who knows what happens after this revolution while even though there's evil all around now, this evil is familiar.

But that biblical adage was in fact invoked originally to curb blood feuds from claiming the innocent relatives of the person who committed the killing.

The King, like Metternich and the Austrian Kaisers, understands de Tocqueville s dictum that the most dangerous moment for a regime is when it starts to reform.

Many governments were initially skeptical about disengagement, but realized that as the Washington saying goes this is the only game in town.

in Jer., XX, 3 But the Saviour himself saith He who is near me is near the fire he who is far from me, is far from the kingdom .

So the eye for an eye adage was not intended to mean what it has come to mean, namely that killing be paid for by another killing.

First, apply the dictum of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) that it is better to let them do it than it is to try to do it better for them.

Understanding Clausewitz s dictum that war is a continuation of politics by other means, Sadat had sent the Egyptian Army across the Suez Canal in order to unleash a peace process.

Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

I certainly would like to know what happened to the person who had that insight back then, if they actually followed it to its ultimate conclusion.

To day he paid less attention than ever to the familiar surroundings the stage, the noise, and all that well known, uninteresting, motley herd of audience in the packed theatre.

She had not called him to mind all that morning but now, having caught sight of that manly, noble face, so familiar and dear to her, she felt an unexpected flow of love toward him.

It was that ordinary well known feeling, as if she were dissembling, which she experienced in regard to her husband, but formerly she had not noticed it, while now she was clearly and painfully conscious of it.

And the familiar cliché is all too often true older middle class women fail to become financially literate in their own households, leaving brokerage accounts, pension accounts, taxes, life insurance, and so on to their husbands.

These are great ideas, but as I went through these texts I found them to be rather familiar sounding I had the feeling that somehow and somewhere I had already studied them.

The report noted, incidentally, that sanctions relief would directly benefit this empire a fact so complicating for individuals like Cohen that they simply cut it out of their narrative on Iran, because citing an old Iranian proverb is far more interesting.

But at the same moment he turned to look at the young man and convulsively jerked his head and neck as if his necktie were strangling him, a movement Levin knew well, and quite another expression a wild, suffering, and cruel look settled on his haggard face.

The question is this are Muslims ready to accept that Khomeini s dictum that Islam is politics or it is nothing is wrong, that Islam is a religion and not a form of government, and that, as in the Christian world, there is a sphere for Caesar and a sphere for God?