Quotes of: Familiarity-breeds Keyword

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

William Shatner

Create a great future. Be happy NOW.

Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success

Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the...

Another Roadside Attraction

Jutta whispers, “A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?

All the Light We Cannot See

When you laugh – you surrender to the greatness of this moment.

Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success

You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.

Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success

Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Thomas Carlyle

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Van Wyck Brooks

Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out. "No," she said. "I've just escap...

To Catch an Heiress

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you’re committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding en...

Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

Moby

When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.

Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

John James Audubon

Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self

The Nustas on The Island of The Sun

The other veteran said "Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don't is a damn liar

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

If you want to change your life – Smile. If you want to change someone else life – Smile. If you want to be connected – Laugh.

Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success

Your imagination is the most powerful tool to create a great life.

Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumsta...

Susan Orlean