Quotes About Familiarity

Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

It was the kind of behavior that could only occur when people had been trapped for thousands of years, staring at the same sights, fetishizing everything around them, spiraling down toward the full-blown insanity of religion. You didn't need gates and barbed wire to make a prison. Familiarity could pin you to the ground, far more efficiently.

We remember stories more easily and more completely than we do facts. We assimilate stories differently, bringing to them the shades of understanding made possible by our own experiences, finding something new each time we approach even one that has long been familiar. A story is like a multifaceted jewel, giving off a different light each time it is turned.

Elisa nuzzles into the phrase, explores it, finds it familiar, almost cozy.

ultimately, what common sense finds natural is what it is familiar with.

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

How little, after all, one knew about the people one knew best

Young Mr. Conn Maxwell, who has just returned from Terra, needs no introduction to any of you," he began. Then, having established that, he took the next ten minutes to introduce Conn.

We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them.

I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.

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I always eat mac and cheese. That's what I'm known for, just very simple food: sandwiches, French fries, very unhealthy, but yeah that's what I eat.

I guarantee you that the people who watch 'Conan O'Brien' or who watch 'Entertainment Tonight' and probably a lot of these other programs have never heard of Operation Blessing. Maybe they have heard of UNICEF, and I'm sure they have heard of the Red Cross, but they haven't heard of this organization.

Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!

I always say I have so many known devils and I prefer them over unknown angels.

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.