“I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament… — Goodman Ace Copy Share Image
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth -… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player… — David Porush Copy Share Image
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. — Timothy White Copy Share Image
There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Just because something is familiar, doesn't mean it's safe. And just because something feels safe, doesn't mean it's good for you.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
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