Accustomed Quotes · Page 8

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing…

— Rebecca De Mornay

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't…

— Tim Ferriss

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls…

— Aristotle

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually…

— Fritz Kreisler

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

— Moliere

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

[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

Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during…

— J. G. Ballard

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

— Vladimir Lenin

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their…

— Matt Gonzalez

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

— Suzanne La Follette

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the…

— Leonard Cohen

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself.…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

— Steven Spielberg

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species…

— Thomas Carlyle

The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print…

— Dan Jenkins

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Robert Fuller

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in…

— Shakti Gawain

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any…

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Pope Francis

You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought…

— Mark Zupan

Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the…

— Paul Feyerabend

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

— Frederick Lenz