Accustomed Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

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

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.