Unaccustomed Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any…
— Annie Besant
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She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool…
— Kathleen Winsor
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The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our…
— Caitlin Moran
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid…
— Learned Hand
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It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field,…
— Alice Paul
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
— Plato
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A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication. To the extent…
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight…
— Maya Angelou
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Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
— William Shakespeare
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Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by…
— Florence Nightingale
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There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
— Marcel Proust
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She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or…
— Kate Chopin
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What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and…
— Michel de Montaigne
Who Wrote These Unaccustomed Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Unaccustomed Quotes as follows: