Accustomed Quotes
382 quotes by 331 authors
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When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before…
— Sophie Scholl
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a…
— Anais Nin
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One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common…
— Joel Osteen
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Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope…
— Anne Bishop
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Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
— Christopher Hitchens
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This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to…
— E. M. Forster
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I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is…
— Willa Cather
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We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of…
— Anton Chekhov
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Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing…
— Lynne Truss
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… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.
— Chaim Potok
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Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then…
— Amelia Earhart
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Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives…
— Cassandra Clare
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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark…
— Emily Dickinson
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed…
— Boris Pasternak
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Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond…
— Harper Lee
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We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to…
— Ally Carter
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Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
— Randy Alcorn
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If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain…
— Robin Hobb
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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
— Betty Smith
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