#familiar

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #mystery #prestige

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#becomes #certain #certain age #commonplace #death

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to. ↗

— Jude Law

#familiar #go #here #home #i

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#although #choice #comfortable #culture #familiar

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#age #brings #distrust #doctrine #familiar

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#exotic #feel #great #i #i feel

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. ↗

— Marc Newson

#emotional #familiar #feel #gives #important

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#common #familiar #ideas #men #more

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#business world #capital #daunting #entrepreneurs #especially