Accustomed Quotes

382 quotes by 335 authors

Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability… — Gay Hendricks
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to… — Aberjhani
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to… — William Wordsworth
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a… — J. William Fulbright
It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring];… — Angelo Dundee
I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati.… — Takeo Spikes
But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to… — Irenaeus of Lyons
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if itâ€™s something fantastic. Theyâ€™re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even… — Cindy Sherman
You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and… — Emily Blunt
I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in… — Donald Trump
It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage… — Rebecca De Mornay
It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having. — Frankie Rayder
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a… — Henry David Thoreau
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. — E. V. Lucas
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage… — Margaret Atwood
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing — Michael Bolton
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin. — Otto von Bismarck
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt

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