Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

“One becomes gradually accustomed to poison.”

— Victor Hugo

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little…

— Robert Boyle

... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex,…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“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 phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.”

— Philippa Gregory

For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits,…

— Charlotte Bronte

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