Familiarity Quotes

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With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Donâ€™t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that â€” I say,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were… — William Gaddis
Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death… — Gail Carriger
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new… — Alain de Botton
Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the… — Cheryl Strayed
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden… — C.S. Lewis
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have… — Daniel Kahneman
Is everyone looking for me?" She shook her head, pulling the robe closer. Suddenly she wanted to be covered up in front of him, in… — Cassandra Clare
Proximity doesn't breed familiarity. — Maureen Johnson
Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Familiarity seems to breed contempt — Hunter S. Thompson
The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began… — Nicholas Sparks
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. — Stewart Udall
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In… — Gay Hendricks
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive,… — Pico Iyer
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar… — Mark Twain
The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own — Jeff Allen
Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving… — Matthew Underwood

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