One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting,… — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy;… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
ather than Eisenstein's fast and hard cutting, I like to hold the shot very still and for longer than we're accustomed to.… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual,… — Lester Beall Copy Share Image
I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Being an actress, you are accustomed to learn to do so many things... You learn how to dry your hair, curl your… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service. — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
