Quotes About Familiarity

He seemed like someone I'd always known even if I never saw him again.

Ah! there is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

La vieja conocía el futuro porque conocía el pasado, y su familiaridad con las cosas de la vida le permitían comprender y, por lo tanto, aceptar sin rencor, la eterna tragedia de la naturaleza: es menester que la carne perezca para que la carne pueda vivir.

We dwell in the place in which we are not traveling but are at home. The landscape of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ is our home. It is a landscape that we are never finished exploring, for new prospects are always emerging. Nevertheless, it is familiar to us and becomes all the more familiar the longer we reside there.

It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.

She didn't realise it, for a long time, and it wasn't until they were having dinner one evening that he said something that she found funny and she looked at him and thought, Yes. I know you. I know you

She knew him so well, the amused, detached tone of his voice, the scroll of his ear, his eyes, his bony frame. Someone whom she always wanted in the room, someone who saw the world the same way, and it had always been like that.

Home is a sacred place within the mind, when you are there what is wonderful is normality.

Art creates a certain familiarity with loneliness. And possibly with pain. Physical, mental, it doesn't really matter. It's all a catalyst. I don't like to admit that because it's depressing, but in truth pain is the stone that art sharpens itself on time after time.

Ce anume ne lipse?te de la cei dragi pe care îi cunoa?tem atât de bine,încât am putea s? termin?m frazele în locul lor ?i s? gândim gândurile lor negândite?

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

I have done this before. In other cities, other nights. So often I can repeat each gesture without owning any of them.

dizer quantos autores temos lido, o quanto somos familiarizados com os escolásticos, quão linguisticamente críticos nós somos ou coisa semelhante. É uma miserável ostentação".

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I read the same authors you do.

All good writing is like this. It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquaintance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be a familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

It doesn't matter if you look ridiculous, not if you are with people you know and trust. If you are with people you know and trust and

There are so many objects that I find that I have forgotten about until they are in my hands again, and they remind me of times in my life I had otherwise forgotten, the way you will visit a place you think is new and then something, a sound or smell or some tiny detail, will make you realize it is familiar after all.

It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquittance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided.

I hate women because they always remember where things are.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.