Quotes About Familiarity

Familiarity breeds liking.

because in my mind—in the memory that has lodged itself imperturbably in my mind, my father resembles Abraham Lincoln, a man with long arms and deep pockets and dark eyes...

Wherever you live, you come to love it.

A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking – without letting your neocortex play into the decision – you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.

Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is.

But it seemed to me that even if everything had been changed, I would have recognized it by the look of the sky.

Before he started to school he knew this farm as he knew the inside of his clothes.

An old man is never at home save in his own garments: his own old thinking and beliefs; old hands and feet, elbow, knee, shoulder which he knows will fit.

the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.

Maybe you have to know anybody awful well to love them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe it's better then maybe it's fine then because after forty-three years they cant any longer surprise you or make you either very contented or very mad.

Same weather over here as back home," I said.

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.

Familiarity and memorability are often at odds.

Because uncertainty makes the Elephant anxious. (Think of how, in an unfamiliar place, you gravitate toward a familiar face.) And that's why decision paralysis can be deadly for change—because the most familiar path is always the status quo.

The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out. You have your routines, your ways of doing things.

We've met a few times and I've felt a lot of sympathy towards you and a desire to be closer... I had a feeling that somehow I knew you and we could just be what we are together.

ac?, bize birbirimizi hat?rlats?n. sonradan kar??la?t???m?zda ondan tan?yaca??z birbirimizi, bir sonra varsa e?er.

Der reine Hohn. Niemand kümmert sich um sie. Die sich lange kennen, sind begierig, ihre immer gleichen Gespräche fortzuführen und interessieren sich nur oberflächlich für die Angelegenheiten eines Fremden.

WHEN YOUR WORLD is small, you learn every inch of it. You can trace it in the dark; you navigate it in your sleep.

It's brave to resist the pull of the familiar. To be selfish about your own needs. I wrestle with that every day.

I can't imagine why you didn't memorize this route on the