Accustomed Quotes

382 quotes by 331 authors

In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the… — Stefan Zweig
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some… — Cennino Cennini
A designerâ€¦has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the… — Lester Beall
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every… — Diana Wynne Jones
It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to… — Ed Buckner
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become… — Eduardo Galeano
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people. — Bret Easton Ellis
I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend… — Idries Shah
It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or… — Jeremy Lin
We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions.… — Dick Morris
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes… — Fred Brooks
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. — Henry David Thoreau
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel de Montaigne
What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to… — William Hazlitt
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that… — Adrienne Rich
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is… — Simon Bolivar

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