Accustomed Quotes

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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.

I am not accustomed to protocol.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.