Quotes About Familiarity

I am the only child in a room full of women and am immediately at ease.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysse Shelley

I realised I had a stream of thoughts about him which ran for the most part below conscious level. I noticed jets spurting up from this stream: comparisons with other relationships I knew of which had weathered massive changes and shifts of balance; small crumbs of hope he would find he missed the familiarity of my company, or that his gestures of comfort meant more than a gentle goodbye. I grieved for these hopes, and their hopelessness.

We risk becoming so commonplace to the men we've thrown our lots in with who can't see us anymore, and who pat the sofa when they mean to pat our knee.

Porque a mera repetição do que é familiar conduz à estagnação, não é pouca a audácia exigida.

My readiness to admit to my fallibility is perhaps rather English, but I hope that the problems I describe will be familiar to doctors and patients everywhere.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.

He liked it all, but he had already liked it so many times!

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.

Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people but to the home.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

Your body will never be familiar.

He liked the way she talked. There was something in her eyes too. He saw it the first time when she had said, 'I've seen you before many times, and I always remembered you.' Josiah could not remember ever seeing her before, but there was something in her hazel brown eyes that made him believe her.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.

I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

Coming back, Utah just felt like home.