Accustomed Quotes

382 quotes by 331 authors

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful… — Isaac Asimov
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who… — Leo Tolstoy
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as… — Rainer Maria Rilke
How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. — Leo Tolstoy
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated… — Helen Fielding
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was… — Robin McKinley
...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it. — Christina Dodd
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and… — Charlotte Bronte
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. — Julia Cameron
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. — Guillaume Apollinaire
I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my… — Augusten Burroughs
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it. — Neal A. Maxwell
We are accustomed to repeating the clichÃ©, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to… — Michael Chabon
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who… — Jodi Picoult
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is… — Daniel Handler
Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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