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Quotes About Familiarity

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar.
~ Naomi Alderman
Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.
~ Naomi Alderman
My hand found the kitchen light switch before I could remember that I might not know where it was.
~ Naomi Alderman
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..
~ Naomi Ragen
Im bli?sza osoba, tym trudniej o czysty odbiór - wypatrujemy tego, co nam znane, nie dowierzamy temu, co obce i zamiast si? otworzy?, szukamy potwierdze?.
~ Unknown
new interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know.
~ Unknown
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
~ Neil Postman
Why would some people attracted to what is unfamiliar and others tat what they knew. She thought It may to do how comfortable you are in your own life, how well you though you belong
~ Nell Freudenberger
Ia à casa do Alipinho com mais frequência e opinava sobre tudo, inclusive sobre o preço do feijão. Queria ter uma participação cada vez maior na vida da família, familiarizar-se com os assuntos da casa. Um belo dia, começou de maneira indireta: "O casamento é uma necessidade social e natural." A
~ Nelson Rodrigues
The anonymity of the modern city is as intolerable as the familiarity of modern customs. Life should resemble a salon of people with good manners, where all know each other but where none hug each other.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
~ Noel Coward
Better the devil that you know than the one that you don't.
~ Unknown
But because I do not wish to be remembered (if I will be remembered) as a self-indulgent fantasist, I'll skip the purple patch for now, however much I wish to write it. I need to make amends for my indifference, for having turned my back on the world in favor of the beauties of the way. I'll try to study cruelty (I regret my own) and render it in more familiar terms.
~ Norman Lock
Al??kanl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey bilmedikleri için, sizin de yoklu?unuza al??acaklard?r.
~ Unknown
Time passed. Kevin and I became more a part of the household, familiar, accepted, accepting. That disturbed me too when I thought about it. How easily we seemed to acclimatize.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The bed was what it had always been: a solid platform that gave slightly to the touch and that seemed to grow from the floor.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
~ Ogden Nash
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
~ Ogden Nash
I thought: please don't grow familiar. I think I said it out loud: Please don't let me love you that horrible way.
~ Unknown
I thought: please don't grow familiar. I think I said it out loud: Please don't let me love you that horrible way. The
~ Unknown
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Today, we know that in the era of the Internet, focused attention has become the rarest commodity in the world. Everyone is speaking, no one is listening, and the resulting familiarity breeds inattention. It is therefore difficult to break through the many levels of resistance and make fresh sense to people.
~ Os Guinness
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
~ Oscar Wilde