Accustomed Quotes · Page 7

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

— Isaac Asimov

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

— Berthold Auerbach

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.

— Tiger Woods

Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

— Frederick Lenz

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

— Baltasar Gracian

“At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to”

— Isabel Allende

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to…

— Paul Valery

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a…

— J. C. R. Licklider

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of…

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously,…

— Jon Stewart

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping…

— Nat Hentoff

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very,…

— Aldous Huxley

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

— Martin Luther King, Jr

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to…

— Anonymous

It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to…

— Stefan Zweig

Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship…

— Rajneesh

The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase…

— Dion Fortune

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this…

— Herodotus

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if…

— Robertson Davies

One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let…

— Brother Lawrence

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which…

— Hudson Taylor

“This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.”

— Robin McKinley

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

— L. Frank Baum

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

— Samuel Johnson

“She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Most parents are accustomed to dealing with problems in the heat of the moment.

— Ross W. Greene

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

“She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves.”

— Kate Chopin

“Ms. Bennett, do you know who I am? I am not accustomed to being spoken to in such a manner.”

— Jane Austen

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

— Bret Easton Ellis

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

— Mark Twain

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

— Neil Cavuto

This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among…

— William Shakespeare