Accustomed Quotes
382 quotes by 335 authors
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly…
— Molly Ivins
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I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.…
— Mario Lemieux
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Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
— Major Owens
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than…
— Dion Fortune
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I do. I can’t say that being in the Valley of the Shadow of Death is something I’ve become all that accustomed to, and that…
— Ted Bundy
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You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the…
— Olafur Eliasson
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
— Dorothy Allison
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Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood…
— Moshe Sharett
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I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride…
— David Mumford
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There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
— Joel Barlow
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Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for…
— Stanley Schmidt
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We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any…
— James Harvey Robinson
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I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an…
— J. Maarten Troost
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
— Berthold Auerbach
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I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.
— Brian Bosworth
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar…
— J. R. Martinez
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It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people…
— Greg Ginn
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