Top 100 Accustomed Quotes
#1. I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Richard Cobden
#2. When they coughed, they coughed like people accustomed to be forgotten on doorsteps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink ...
Charles Dickens
#3. 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 theirs.
Stanley Schmidt
#4. Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.
Isaac Asimov
#5. The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.
Laurence Sterne
#6. It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
Neil Cavuto
#7. Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.
J.G. Ballard
#8. The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#9. There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#10. The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
Elia Kazan
#11. From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster
that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.
Henry Adams
#12. Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.
Victor Hugo
#13. By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed seriatim, the law takes care to preserve in the legislative body a nucleus of men already accustomed to public business, and capable of exercising a salutary influence upon the junior members.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#14. I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
Oprah Winfrey
#15. What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
James J. Gibson
#16. I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
Fan Bingbing
#17. I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.
Mesa Selimovic
#18. Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#20. ... it's not possible to truly become desensitized or accustomed to discrimination. It's something one endures.
Mary Lindsey
#21. None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
John Tillotson
#22. The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.
Tom Rachman
#23. Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.
Frank Minis Johnson
#24. One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out.
Louisa Hall
#25. The world is changing and you're only just becoming accustomed to it. You're changing, I suppose. You've changed since I've known you.'
'How?'
'You've come more alive.
Sara Sheridan
#26. We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.
Jerry Bridges
#27. We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. One of the many lessons to emerge from Hurricane Katrina is that Americans are not accustomed to seeing unattended bodies on the streets of a major city." Understatement of the century, Doctor.
Caitlin Doughty
#29. I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
#30. Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#31. So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.
Epictetus
#32. All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman's face, or worse
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil.
William Butler Yeats
#33. No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.
Millicent Fawcett
#34. The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
Hernan Cortes
#35. We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
Everett Dirksen
#36. The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.
Charles Babbage
#37. To recognize untruth as a condition of life
that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
Larry Wall
#39. This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
Philippa Gregory
#40. Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.
H.W. Brands
#41. He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.
Michael Montoure
#42. My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.
Kim Hyesoon
#43. I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.
Guido Westerwelle
#44. One can grow accustomed to carrying unseeable scars, as if the tattoo one wears is inked in flesh tone over flesh tone; but nevertheless one is still covered in secret, painted with secret, stained by it.
Lyndsay Faye
#45. Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: "The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe." Sorel
Niccolo Machiavelli
#46. Speak ill of yourself when by yourself; then you will become accustomed both to speak and to hear the truth.
Seneca.
#47. such a bitter taste in his mouth? He had become so accustomed to her feisty spirit and to the martial spark that flared in her eyes when she was ready to do battle, that this quiet surrender left him feeling more like a bullying lout than an officer deserving
Andrea Pickens
#48. hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. Wherefore,
Niccolo Machiavelli
#49. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.
Pablo Neruda
#50. And he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#51. 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.
George Bernard Shaw
#52. Fortunately I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.
Graeme Simsion
#53. A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside; "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
Brillat-Savarin
#54. 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 their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
Martha Gellhorn
#55. 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 sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler
#58. I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#59. Do you think he's, like, embarrassed of me?"
Ben laughed. "What? No," he said.
"Technically," I added, "you should be embarrassed of him."
She rolled her eyes, smiling. A girl accustomed to compliments.
John Green
#60. I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.
Sarah Mally
#61. In a world where we are accustomed to rivalries over possession, authority, and borders, and people clashing over the issue, "Ours," or "Mine, not yours," it is rather strange to find two people debating whose the kingdom is not, and asserting: "Yours, not mine.
R.K. Narayan
#62. He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
Alexandre Dumas
#63. Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle ... we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.
Gay Hendricks
#64. Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#66. Am I kin to Sorrow,
That so oft
Falls the knocker of my door -
Neither loud nor soft,
But as long accustomed -
Under Sorrow's hand?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#67. The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
Evan Osnos
#69. Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
Edward Thorndike
#70. Later on, absence taught me far more bitter lessons: that you get accustomed to absence, that the greatest abatement of the self, the most humiliating torment is to feel that you are no longer tormented by absence.
Marcel Proust
#71. I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
Lorna Luft
#72. Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.
Bill Dedman
#73. The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#74. He has gone and we are missing him ! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation.
Jean Webster
#75. 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 as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.
William Hazlitt
#76. So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
Chris Bell
#77. I had become accustomed to being woken, and generally managed to fall asleep again within a few minutes. But the aggregate effect could not be ignored and I was forced to reschedule my bedtime to thirteen minutes earlier.
Graeme Simsion
#78. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.
Bhagat Singh
#79. I find that respectability grows wearisome after a time, when one is accustomed to being a disgrace.
Marie Brennan
#80. When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
Mike Lee
#81. Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
Nancy Gibbs
#82. The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#83. Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
Moliere
#84. Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.
Tiger Woods
#85. We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.
Jim Lampley
#86. The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.
Edward Gibbon
#87. 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.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#88. Times arise in life, when you have to choose between something you have become accustomed to and something you wanted to have.
Paulo Coelho
#89. Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.
Barack Obama
#90. I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.
Donald Trump
#91. People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.
Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk
#92. Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
Aristotle.
#93. Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
Jacques Barzun
#94. This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior.
William Mapother
#95. But - pardon me if I seem inquisitive - are you not all rather - ahem! rather unusual?" asked the Woggle-Bug, looking from one to another with unconcealed interest. "Not more so than yourself," answered the Scarecrow. "Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.
L. Frank Baum
#96. While newborn babies don't have "habits," they don't stay newborns for long. Before you know it, your newborn becomes a baby who is accustomed to a specific routine. Babies get used to a certain pattern that becomes a very strong sleep cue, and then they are reluctant to accept change.
Elizabeth Pantley
#97. I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
Sherwood Smith
#98. Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?
Ted Chiang
#99. Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.
Robin Hobb
#100. And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.
Leo Tolstoy
