Quotes about Familiarity
If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.
- John Eldredge
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
- GK Chesterton
Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.
- Gloria Steinem
Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.
- Bo Burnham
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
- Joseph Addison
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
- Nikki Giovanni
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
- Cicero
What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.
- Cicero
A man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.
- Viktor E. Frankl
We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade...
- Virginia Woolf