Quotes About Familiarity

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

Familiarity increases carnality.

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

He'd been going out with his right hand for so long they were practically common law spouses.

If you are true soul mates, you never meet as strangers, you meet feeling like you've known each other forever. You feel at peace, calm, happy—you feel complete.

My soul recognized him and it was easy to be in sync with him—to feel like I'd known him forever.

This is like deja vu all over again.

Anything with human form will resemble someone you know.

Stekel dice que todos los síntomas neuróticos derivan de percances familiarres y que las personas neuróticas muestran los síntomas de una enfermedad que un agudo estudio definió como "familitis" (fiebre de la familia).

They were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate.

were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate.

It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

She thinks of Dixie with excited identity as being some adult part of herself divorced from her by transfiguring years, like a very sunburned arm which might not appear familiar if you had been unconscious of its alterations.

jutting bosom, and closer acquaintance had done nothing

That was one thing you could count on in small southern towns: everyone knew where the Walmart was located.

Cate stared intently at the land, as if trying to wring some knowledge from it, as if she were seeing it for the first time, although in fact it couldn't have been more familiar to her, the type of landscape against which she still judge all others.

The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

Surprises don't come from people we know well, certainly not people we love. We call them surprises but they are inevitabilities.

He tasted like chocolate, smelled like heaven, and felt like home. How

Wade pulled his gaze from hers before he got stuck there again, then retrieved his hat from where it had fallen. He set it on Abigail's head and looked at her appreciatively. She made one heck of a cowgirl. "You were born to wear that thing." "A little big." He gazed at her face, loving the planes and curves that were becoming so familiar. "Fits just right.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

People usually feel comfortable making decisions about subject matter that's familiar to them.

Finbar shook his head. "Nope, wouldn't call us friends, exactly. Associates, or . . . or . . . not colleagues, but . . . I mean, we know each other, like, but . . .