Accustomed Quotes

382 quotes by 331 authors

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I… — Richard Cobden
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. — Mitchell Baker
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 bother me. — Tim Ferriss
I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print.… — Matt Gonzalez
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and… — Max Born
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. — Anthony Michael Hall
In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed… — Thomas Jefferson
True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think. — Arthur Frederick Saunders
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice. — Frederick Lenz
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. — Moliere
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look… — William Shakespeare
This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One… — William Shakespeare
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. — Mark Twain
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves — Samuel Johnson
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon… — Bertrand Russell
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not… — Anthony Trollope
No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France… — Helen Wills

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