Accustomed Quotes
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There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.
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I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
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Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.
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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 and women crying.
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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. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror...
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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 upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.
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Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
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I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but it's something that we've grown accustomed to over the years.
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Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
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When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
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Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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This is a difficult situation that we are not accustomed to.
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It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
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For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.
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When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
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The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
