Accustomed Quotes

The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.

When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

Most parents are accustomed to dealing with problems in the heat of the moment.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves