People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Familiarity brings contempt but rarity breeds admiration — Ogunsakin Ayobami Ayorinde Copy Share Image
Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable. — Caragh M. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn’t even remember figuring it out.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity.… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
“A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own — Jeff Allen Copy Share Image
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
