Accustomed Quotes

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.