Familiarity Quotes

• The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Work
  • Will
  • Evidence

• I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

  

  James Boswell
  • Thoughts
  • Offer
  • Familiarity

• Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

  

  Caragh M. O'Brien
  • Feelings
  • Worst
  • Tolerable

• I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Contempt
  • Familiarity
  • Bred

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Comfort
  • Familiar
  • Familiar Things

• Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtue
  • Ashamed
  • Familiarity

• Familiarity breeds consent.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Consent
  • Familiarity

• There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

  

  Nobuo Uematsu The Black Mages
  • Familiarity
  • Piece Of Music
  • Celtic music

• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • May
  • Admiration
  • Contempt

• For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Word
  • Negro
  • Familiarity

• In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Communication
  • Familiarity
  • Apathy

• Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

  

  Archibald Rutledge
  • Nature
  • Surprise
  • Contempt

• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Modesty
  • Conduct
  • Lewdness

• Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

  

  Apuleius
  • Admiration
  • Contempt
  • Familiarity

• I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Littles

• We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Movement

• Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

  

  Noel Coward
  • Contempt
  • Familiarity
  • Breed

• Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Knows
  • Easy
  • Stranger

• Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Work
  • Family
  • Happy

• A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Monster
  • Familiarity
  • Devours

• As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Space
  • Band
  • Proximity

• Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Everyday
  • Objects

• Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

  

  Amanda Craig
  • Contempt
  • Familiarity
  • Breeds

• The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Smell

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