The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like… — Elizabeth Holtzman Copy Share Image
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms.… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
