Quotes About Familiarity

But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.

But a man's identity (or that of a community) is nothing more than an unbroken rehearsal of contingencies, each at the mercy of circumstance and each significant in proportion to its familiarity.

a man's identity (or that of a community) is nothing more than an unbroken rehearsal of contingencies, each at the mercy of circumstance and each significant in proportion to its familiarity.

She's a woman who enjoys the liberal use of first names.

We are not strangers. It's a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

what you wanted more than anything right then, was simply to sleep in your own bed, eat in your own kitchen, sit on your own toilet. You wanted to stop seeing the world. You wanted to see your world. So we would drive.

Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me.

He told himself, too, that it was good to sleep in a bed you know well after a long day rife with emotions.

Tourists see invisible things. Sometimes their point of view eluded him. By now, he was often the first in the group to raise his camera: to a roadside shrine or a sunset, to a buffalo plowing a paddy, ribs curved like a boat. But why were the others laughing at a billboard advertising Perlwite soap? What was fascinating about two village women grinding chilies on a stone? The dust of familiarity still lay in patches on the scenes through which he moved.

There's something to be said for geographic affinity, all right.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

People always go on about how fantastic relationships are in the beginning, and of course everyone hates relationships when they end, but what about the middles? the middles where you know everything there is to know. Where you can look at the person you love and know what they're thinking, see something on the telly and know how they'd react;When you know exactly what they'd wear to come round and see you.

So, for a variety of reasons, ranging from convenience to fear to economics, people stayed in their own neighborhood, loving it, enjoying the closeness, the friendliness, the familiarity, and trying to save enough money to move out.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

It's one of those songs— like Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven"— that everyone knows all the words to without ever having chosen to learn them.

O vreme, oraÈ™ul a fost blând È™i familiar, È™tiam str?duÈ›ele È™i cl?dirile din jurul casei noastre, peste care ningea acum greu, uscat, foÈ™nind uÈ™or. ... Dup? un timp de tors leneÈ™, oraÈ™ul a început îns? s? mârâie ca un animal iritat. Nu mai È™tiam drumul... oraÈ™u-a-nceput s? rag? ca un leu din toate cl?dirile lui necunoscute, din str?zile necunoscute, din ochii oamenilor necunoscuÈ›i.

Lovers who have lived a lifetime together have the luxury of never having to say anything new.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

You are most likely to respect a stranger more than you respect your parents and siblings, the people whom you know inside out.

O]nce you can read, you can no longer open a book and see a jumble of letters; after you get to know someone's face, you can't see her as a stranger.

Are you sane, Mother? Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. Is any immortal every truly sane?

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to see it.

Strange surroundings make youngsters cling to habits that represent earlier securities.