Quotes About Familiarity

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

The real love for somebody comes from getting to know them very well.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

It's just so strange.You used to love me, and now you're a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

for the first time since I have lived in it, this old house seemed like home.

The common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. I

to know her is to love her

familiarity breeds acceptance.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Christianity was like McDonald's, I concluded: the menu was limited and predictable, but its familiarity felt as comforting as a cheeseburger. What it lacked in nourishment it made up for in convenience.

Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people.

So familiar that it didn't even register in the conversation; but it did reappear when I laid it out on the table of my dreams.

The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever.

It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.

I've never heard of you and I know this city like the back of my hand,' said Vimes. 'Right. And how often do you look at the back of your hand Mr Vimes?…

Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.

I have seen a lot of ugly things as a trainee and as a nurse, but they don't bother me very much. It's not that the familiarity hardens one; it is rather that one learns the knack of channelling one's emotions around the ugly thing.