Quotes of: Familiarity-breeds Keyword

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

Anna Julia Cooper

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

The president, the secretary of state, the businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the clients and managers—all walking around Wall Street like chickens with their heads cut off—rushing to escape bankruptcy—plotting to melt down the S...

Giannina Braschi

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

George Sand

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

Jessica Sanchez

What is familiar tends to become a value.

Gordon W. Allport

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

Gerald M. Weinberg

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

Life

One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vist...

Richard F. Thomas

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

His Majesty's Dragon

'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young writers. It was a safe environment to experiment; it tried new things, and it was an amazing time and amazing to be part of it.

Joe Dempsie

I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.

Alice Walton

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

The Age of Miracles

No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

Indiscretion

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

A Room with a View

The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.

Lords of Dyscrasia

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Snuff