Familiarity Quotes

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world

Familiarity breeds contentment.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

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

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.

Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

I'm pretty grounded in a lifestyle which disciplines me and gives me a sense of familiarity and comfort.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

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.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

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

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

Familiarity breeds democracry.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

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

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.