Familiarity Quotes
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Familiarity Quotes & Sayings
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But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond -
— James St. James
Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.
— Robert C. Solomon
Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.
— Tierney Gearon
If the gate to your precious room is always left ajar, people shall least knock before entering into your precious room!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Home was homeless. It could exist anywhere, because its only substance was familiarity.
— Diana Evans
By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Familiarity does breed contempt; - doesn't it?
— Anthony Trollope
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
— Hunter S. Thompson
Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
— Amanda Craig
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
— Nobuo Uematsu
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
— Honore De Balzac
Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
— Bill Vaughan
It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.
— Brian Francis
The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.
— Camilla Gibb
Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.
— David Nicholls
But they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
— David Nicholls
When two persons are too close, they fall apart.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
— Florence King
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.
— Mark Lawrence
We also confuse trust with familiarity.
— Robert C. Solomon
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
— Saskya Pandita
Familiarity increases carnality.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.
— Jay Conrad Levinson
It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Familiarity breeds indifference.
— Aldous Huxley
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
— Roy Hattersley
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.
— E.B. White
Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.
— IO Tillett Wright
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
— William Hazlitt
But that was the strange comfort of long-standing friendship - ribbons of familiarity and old love woven through your life.
— Alexis Hall
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
— Vince Vaughn
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
— Joseph Joubert
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'
— Steve Carell
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
— Feist
What was love if not a certain pleasantly deluded familiarity built up over years?
— Julie Anne Long
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
— Terence McKenna
But familiarity is just an illusion. It actually tricks me into thinking I know more than I do, that I mean more to him than I do. I
— Nina G. Jones
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
— Chaka Khan
A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
— Daniel Kahneman
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
— Victor Hugo
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.
— Nicholas Sparks
We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.
— The School Of Life
Sometimes it's not that people bring us happiness, they just bring us familiarity. You know what to expect from them.
— Kaiylah Muhammad
Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That's why we don't know so much about stupidity.
— Carl William Brown
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.
— Nicholas Sparks
The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
— Noel Coward
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
— George Santayana
She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.
— Sage Steadman
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I do not relish leaving home, leaving my children, leaving the familiarity of my bed, my coffee maker, my slippers, but I do love hotels.
— Nickolas Butler
It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.
— Jennifer E. Smith
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
— Sara Sheridan
Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time.
— Frances Hardinge
...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't...
— Emma Cline
Familiarity can blind too.
— Robert M. Pirsig
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name ...
— Jennifer Weiner
Familiarity with the secret place is familiarity with the glory place. Abide in his presence.
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.
— Radhanath Swami
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Familiarity breeds liking.
— Daniel Kahneman
And when I look into his eyes there's a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.
— Rebecca James
Familiarity can blind you
— Robert M. Pirsig
Adolescents sometimes say ... "My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.
— Laurence Steinberg
I'm pretty grounded in a lifestyle which disciplines me and gives me a sense of familiarity and comfort.
— Aeriel Miranda
...reflection can transform something familiar.
— Diane L. Dunton
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
— Archibald Rutledge
Familiarity trumps functionality.
— Suyog Ketkar
