Quotes About Familiarity

Une habitude c'est presque une compagnie, dans la mesure où une compagnie n'est bien souvent qu'une habitude.

His work is the real thing. It preserves us from two dangers. The first is the (Arminian) danger of false revivalism. Familiarity with the genuine is the best safeguard against the false. The second is the (Reformed?) danger of a false superiority.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Four hundred pictures all on a wall are four hundred times less interesting than one picture; and no one knows a cafe till he has gone there often enough to know the names of the waiters. These

Of course! I'm far more used to working with a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Nimbus 2000." Trish peers at me in surprise. "Isn't that the broomstick out of Harry Potter?" Damn. I knew I'd heard it somewhere. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is," I say at last, my face flaming. "And also a well-known ironing board. In fact, I think the broomstick was named Ã¢â'¬Â¦ er Ã¢â'¬Â¦ after the ironing board.

One becomes weary only of what is new.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss.

if you get a certain breed of dog or buy a certain model of car, you suddenly start noticing the same dog or car everywhere you go.

We want to do business with people we know, like and trust.

You love her, even if you don't believe you do. You're used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Make your visits short, especially to the sick. To visit too often is tiresome to your friends, and to visit too rarely is less than what is due to friendship. Your calls will be best appreciated when they are seasonable and not too frequent. Too much familiarity is a cause of coolness among friends. Do

You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain." She was quite right. It was that simplicity that seemed somehow to be the nucleus of the shock. From very familiarity one forgets all the forces which keep the balance, and thinks of security as normal. It is not.

Cu cât cunoÈ™ti un om mai bine È™i mai mult, cu atât eÈ™ti mai aproape de o fatal? desp?rÈ›ire de el.

Sometimes you can feel old-sweatshirt comfortable with someone you've just met and two-left-shoes awkward with people you've known for ages.

I have known a man who did not know what color his sister's eyes were, though he had seen her every day for twenty years; or rather, he did not know because he had so seen her: so true is the philosophical maxim that we neglect the constant element in our thoughts, though it is probably the most important, and attend almost only to the varying elements—the differentiating elements (as men now speak)—though they are apt to be less potent.

Between persons who are perpetually in each other's company dislike or love increases daily; every moment brings reasons to love or hate each other more and more.

It was only I who had forgotten how well we knew each other.

We recognize the people we love no matter how much they change.

We can only love what we know.

The scariest thing about reality TV is having all new characters that you have to be introduced to.

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.