Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one
—C. S. Lewis
There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.
—Leah Raeder in Unteachable
Another plan I have is World Peace through Formal Introductions. The idea is that everyone in the world would be required to meet everyone else in the world, formally, at least once. You'd have to look the person in the eye, shake hands, repeat their name, and try to remember one outstanding physical characteristic. My theory is, if you knew everyone in the world personally, you'd be less inclined to fight them in a war: "Who? The Malaysians? Are you kidding? I know those people!
—George Carlin
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me—they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!
—Ellen DeGeneres
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
—A. A. Milne
The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
—Shirley MacLaine
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.
—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir
Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain