Accustomed Quotes · Page 9

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made…

— Laurence Sterne

Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not…

— Rembrandt Peale

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

— Isaac Asimov

One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods…

— Thomas Little Heath

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

— Elia Kazan

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They…

— Caitlin Thomas

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

— Deepak Chopra

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

— Graeme Simsion

The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new…

— Janine Benyus

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you…

— John Ashbery

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

— Emmeline Pankhurst

It's possible that Generation Facebook, accustomed as it is to a whole range of experiences that it only imbibes online, doesn't have…

— Noreena Hertz

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into…

— William Robertson Smith

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness…

— Sigmund Freud

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

— Pope Francis

I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what…

— Sam Cassell

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives,…

— Michael Sandel

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on…

— Ezra Pound

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

— Winona LaDuke

Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it…

— Jane Fonda

We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We…

— Ralph Waldo Trine

Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the…

— Olafur Eliasson