Top Familiarity Quotes

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.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

Familiarity Definition

(n.) The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

(n.) Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

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

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

Familiarity increases carnality.

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t...

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate realit...

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t...

They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiratio...

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

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

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend...

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.