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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

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. — Timothy White

Sometimes there's this feeling of things being repeated. I put the needle on the same place in the same track and I expect a different tune. — Naomi Wood

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

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show. — Alia Shawkat

Familiarity seems to breed contempt — Hunter S. Thompson

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this? — T.K. Naliaka

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

I couldn't bring myself to call him either "Bill," which would signal friendly familiarity, or "Doctor Vogel," which would imply respect. — Frankie Bow

Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit. — Seth Godin

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity. — Honore De Balzac

The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own — Jeff Allen

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts. — Bill Vaughan

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned. — Alan Arkin

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something. — Brian Francis

Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom. — Sherry Argov

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

I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover. — Ray Metzker

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

She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off of someone. — Jojo Moyes

Any decent jock could ride her. But familiarity with a horse gave you an edge. — Jane Schwartz

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity. — Jeff Kinney

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. — Jen Knox

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

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home. — Harold Bloom

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales. — Jay Conrad Levinson

Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone. — Jojo Moyes

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity. — Donna Lynn Hope

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons. — Meg Donohue

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

Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn't even remember figuring it out. — Rainbow Rowell

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

We move through our days with the comfort of familiarity, waking at the same time each morning and almost always the same way... — Joe Eck

a sense of such oneness and familiarity that words often weren't needed. — Richelle Mead

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

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing. — Truth Devour

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost. — Anthony Liccione

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

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

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

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all. — Sarah Dessen

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

When you face your fear, you become familiar with it and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip - fear ceases to be fear. — Gulzar

...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

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J.C. Ryle

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

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. — Stewart Udall

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

She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. — Edith Wharton

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. — Brian Greene