We human beings have a remarkable way of growing…

I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful.

— Claire Denis

“I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they…

— Mansur Abdulin

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

— Anonymous

“human beings have a remarkable ability to understand the logic of a thing without acting in accordance with that logic. And”

— Joshua Guess

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

— Jim Rohn

Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what…

— John Irving

“Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious,…

— Salman Rushdie

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into…

— Cameron Diaz

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

— Edward Greenspon

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of…

— Esther Hicks

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

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…

— R. C. Sproul