Unfamiliarity Quotes

#1. Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with baloney detection, critical thinking, and the scientific method. Gullibility kills.

Carl Sagan

#2. You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.

Ernie Els

#3. He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Robert Penn Warren

#4. The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.

Jeffery Deaver

#5. Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Seneca The Younger

#6. Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.

Lucy Freeman

#7. My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case, quite frankly, presumed familiarity has led to unfamiliarity, unfamiliarity has led to contempt, and contempt has led to profound ignorance.

Dallas Willard

#8. By comparison, George W. Bush was light and breezy and apparently forgot during one debate that Social Security was a federal program. In fact, his depth, and his unfamiliarity with the complexities of the issues, to say nothing of the simple declarative sentence, worked remarkably to his advantage.

Charles P. Pierce

#9. And 'barbarity,' I fear, is simply a word for unfamiliarity that threatens.

R. Scott Bakker

#10. Dread = Uncontrollability + Unfamiliarity + Imaginability + Suffering + Scale of Destruction + Unfairness

Amanda Ripley

#11. It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

Sara Sheridan

#12. When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Sandra Bernhard

#13. It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.

Sara Sheridan

#14. Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

Yixing Zhang

#15. It is never a bad thing to take up your fair share of space, said Mr. Bunny ambiguously.

Polly Horvath

#16. The best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

Ben Jonson

#17. And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

Dave Eggers

#18. I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

Eve Ensler