Familiar Quotes

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Familiarity breeds content.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

The food to me is just a hook, it's a button, it happens to be the social construct and the cultural totem that I'm most familiar with. So of course I built the show around food because it's where I'm familiar.