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
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright.… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that's instantaneous... What's… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world;… — Richard Cobden 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
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to… — Bill Rodgers Copy Share Image
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if… — Mireille Mathieu Copy Share Image
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression "being points beyond itself" may be taken to denote… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
