Quotes About Familiarity

I like home. It's warm and there are books.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things.

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.

Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.

Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

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.

You get used to... what you want to get used to.

This is reality, back home is routine.

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

He clicked through a dozen of them until he found a picture of a dark, curly haired woman, ample, smiling, appearing much younger than sixty, so familiar-looking that he was immediately attracted to her simply because he found familiarity, rare these days, so comforting. He opened her ad and realized he was staring at a picture of his wife,

Yes, I had known him all my life - and then we met.

He liked familiar things, things that had been worn in by good people, people he could trust.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash

I know the fifth chapter

That way, you two can get to know

She reached her doorstep. The key turned sweetly in the lock. That was the kind of thing one remembered about a house: not the size of the rooms or the color of the walls, but the feel of the door-handles and light-switches, the shape and texture of the banister-rail under one's palm; minute tactual intimacies, whose resumption was the essence of coming home.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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

Nothing like being with people you've known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can't create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn't the same.

Even from behind, I knew the seated man was Garth. I'd seen him in chair, saddle, and by a campfire. I'd known him running with his hounds, grooming his horses, leaning back to look at the stars from the branches of a pine tree, hunched with concentration whittling a doll, carrying Alice through a storm, and even sparring with a dragon. A woman will know a man from all sides after that.