Quotes About Familiarity

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there's a click. I don't believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

even the oldest and most familiar places retain an ineradicable capacity to surprise you.

Por definición, nuestros patrones habituales de acción solo bastan para cosas y situaciones de determinada significación: solo sabemos como actuar en presencia de lo que nos es familiar. La aparición de lo inesperado nos saca de la complacencia inconsciente, axiomática, y nos obliga (dolorosamente) a pensar.

es preferible lo malo conocido a lo bueno por conocer.

Twenty years is more than enough to know a town, and no one can convince me otherwise. San Diego had six thousand souls, and I knew all the townspeople as if I myself had given birth to them and I myself had nursed them. I knew on which foot this one limped, and which shoe was too tight for that one, who was courting which young woman.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

Don't I know you?" the ThunderClan leader murmured. "I thought I knew a promising young warrior once. . . . He looked a lot like you.

Now those dogs know where we live.

Leafpaw felt that he reminded her of some other cat, but however hard she stared at him, she could not remember who.

The tenderness in her tone, which had once been so familiar to me, now felt completely foreign. Hearing it again was like a knife in my heart.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit.

I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.

For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

I remember I met Mark Jackson - and even now he still remembers me from middle school.

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still be a comfort in the familiar recognition of a cycle repeating itself.