A Quote by Nicholas Sparks

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

Nicholas Sparks

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Nicholas Sparks
American - Novelist
Born: December 31, 1965

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

Miguel de Cervantes

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

Maureen Johnson

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

Noel Coward

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

Gertrude Stein

Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

Tobin Heath

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

Steven Levenkron

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Becca Fitzpatrick

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

George Herbert

One result of moviemaking - and a side effect of moviegoing - is familiarity. If an actor is particularly good, familiarity opens into something deeper: care, concern, identification, empathy. Yet even those concepts can feel inadequate for some actors.

Wesley Morris

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

Vic Mensa

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

William Cobbett

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

Rashad Evans

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

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Wilford Brimley

It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do I think. And the Jewish people were bred to write the stuff that we say.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They're not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes.

Cesar Millan

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