Quotes About Unfamiliarity

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become aquatinted. It was perpetual estrangement.

Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

No pudo haber dos corazones más abiertos, ni gustos tan similares, ni sentimientos tan unificados. Ahora eran dos extraños. No; peor que extraños, porque jamás podrían llegar a conocerse. Era un exilio perpetuo.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

These people," she said. "These people who die and you never knew them. What are you supposed to feel?" She really wanted me to tell her. She really thought that I would know. "Nothing," I said, tossing the key on her bed. "You're not supposed to feel anything.

I felt very little tenderness for her, she was a stranger to me, a stranger who did not think or feel as I did.

A world I will never feel comfortable in, never understand, and never approve of or forgive.

She'd been gone for nearly a year and her hair was longer and she was wearing an entire outfit Gemma had never seen before. Even her shoes were different.

The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.

He's saying that everything you know is going to change. Things that you are familiar with will become strange and alien, and things you have never imagined will become normal.

The result of this is a disrespect for the world in general and a foreignness to anything around him that isn't immediately recognizable to his everyday habits. He has even begun to lose perspective on what his own assets and faults are, because he has nothing to measure these things against.

When I got together with Alec it took me a while to understand. I knew nothing about him before I met him. I'd never had a TV in my entire life, I knew nothing about it.

I never saw the face of Cobbett...I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.

The air had a stinging weight like ocean waves. I felt myself a stranger to the world.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

I walked back through those corridors. My mind was bare, my skin bristling as if it would rise off my flesh. Every noise, every touch, the stones beneath my feet, the splash of fountains from a window, crept evilly upon my senses. The air had a stinging weight like ocean waves. I felt myself a stranger to the world.

I felt myself a stranger to the world