Accustomed Quotes · Page 4

Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

— Nathan McCall

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that…

— Pericles

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…

— Fred Brooks

As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.

— Marielle Heller

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he…

— Manuel Puig

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without…

— Stanley Schmidt

Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel,…

— Beverly Engel

The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have…

— Rush Limbaugh

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to…

— Daniel Pipes

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It…

— Arnold Palmer

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that…

— Henry George

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

— Claudius Claudianus

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Guido Westerwelle

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and…

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

— Alexei Navalny

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

— Victor Hugo

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

— Gaspard Ulliel

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so…

— Marilyn French

There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on…

— Henry David Thoreau

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

— Alec Douglas-Home