The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that. — Fan Bingbing Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style. — Brian Bosworth Copy Share Image
I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style. — Brian Bosworth Copy Share Image
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. — Anthony Michael Hall Copy Share Image
“I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.” — Sara Naveed Copy Share Image
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“He had grown accustomed to his wife by this time, and regarded silence on his own part as a great preservative against… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event...… — Umberto Eco 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
Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed… — Henry Margenau 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
One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but… — Dorotheus of Gaza 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
Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you… — John Ashbery 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
In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle 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
It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will… — Dale Jamieson 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
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image