Accustomed Quotes

382 quotes by 331 authors

I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND… — Bill Rodgers
We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all… — Robert Collier
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves. — Beth Moore
Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. — Pope Francis
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible… — Roger Ebert
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge… — Neil Armstrong
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. — Sydney J. Harris
We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need occasionally to… — Ralph Waldo Trine
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were… — William Alexander
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their… — Kenny Smith
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully… — Manuel Puig
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but… — Leo Tolstoy
I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from… — Henry David Thoreau
The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further… — Jacob Burckhardt
I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering… — P D Ouspensky
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of… — Martha Gellhorn
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that… — David Hume
We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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