Accustomed Quotes · Page 4

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

— Lorna Luft

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

— Moliere

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

— Anonymous

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

— Mitchell Baker

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

— Franklin P. Adams

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

— Everett Dirksen

“Being accustomed to something did not mean it was any easier to deal with.”

— Manda Collins

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

— Dorothy Allison

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

I was so accustomed to playing cowboys I wasn't sure I could portray an educated doctor.

— Robert Fuller

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living,…

— Benito Mussolini

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the…

— Aron Ralston

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

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in…

— George Combe

How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many…

— Pablo Neruda

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed…

— Ulysses S. Grant

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for…

— Beth Moore

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might…

— Margaret Atwood

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at…

— George Albert Wells

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is…

— James Harvey Robinson

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to…

— Mario Lemieux

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even…

— Hudson Gurney

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights…

— Abraham Lincoln

I think because I do model for brands but it's never without input, ever. With AG I front their campaign, and obviously…

— Alexa Chung

“Funny, how accustomed I’d become to visiting her here; how it gave me a strange sense of comfort to know that she…

— Tahereh Mafi

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into…

— Thomas Reid

Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy;…

— Anthony Trollope

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not…

— Esther Hicks

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

— Paulo Coelho

“I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy more solid ground”

— Audrey Niffenegger

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

— E. M. Forster

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

— Pope Francis

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

— Jose Saramago

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

— Bill Dedman

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

— Guido Westerwelle

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

— Deepak Chopra

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

— Vladimir Lenin