Quotes Tagged With :familiarity

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately....

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in....

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable.....

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.