Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I love New York for being New York. I love L.A. for being L.A. But when it comes home, I'm a Midwest,… — Nelly Copy Share Image
I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes. — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you see your body wasted away through sickness, do not murmur against God, but say: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able… — Terrence Trammell Copy Share Image
Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are… — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk.… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
