Quotes About Familiarity

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it.

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

My favorite spot to hang out is my home.

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

I try to stay at the same spots all the time, so they remember me.

I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

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

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Blinking through the fading light and the gently falling snow, she thought for a moment the neighborhood they were driving through looked oddly familiar, though she was sure she'd never been here before.

And it's surprising how quickly you can get used to being loved

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.

Emotion in the heart is like poison in a substance, like fire latent in reeds-one ought to be aware of this. Therefore, as superior people do their work, they do not feel exalted when given status, do not feel aggrandized when honored, do not pay attention when treated familiarly, do not become suspicious when treated with aloofness, and cannot be abased. Thus they cannot be moved by emotions.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.