Accustomed Quotes - Page 12

• It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Missing, Habit, Trifling

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.726, Delphi Classics

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• Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Men, Adaptation

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• At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  House, Site, Spots

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.128

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• Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ordinary, Taste, Mundane

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.425

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• 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

  Light, Succeed, Looks

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.23

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• 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 men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Men, Political

  Adrienne Cécile Rich (1977). “Women and honor: some notes on lying”

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• 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 nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.

  Simon Bolivar

  Government, Long, People

  "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.

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• But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fun, Teaching, Writing

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

  Karl Kraus

  Morning, Up Early, Stupidity

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• I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

  Max Beerbohm

  Politics, Anarchist, Should

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.88, New York Review of Books

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• Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

  Walter Benjamin

  Food, Justice, Done

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.477, Harvard University Press

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• Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

  Deborah Tannen

  Girl, Way, Obvious

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Freedom, May, Walks

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• I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

  Mario Lemieux

  Past, Play, Levels

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• We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happiness, Thinking, Order

  Shakti Gawain (2016). “Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life”, p.50, New World Library

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• The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• [An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

  Rembrandt Peale

  Character, Eye, Science

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• 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

  Names, Coward, World

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.408

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• But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

  Mitchell Baker

  Thinking, Difficult, Products

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• When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Weather, Ideas

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

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• I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Thinking, Names, People

  "Forever the rebel with a cause, Gonzalez exits left at City Hall / Idealist energized young liberals in strong run for mayor" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2005.

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• It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial "door-nail," say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.

  Max Born

  Moving, Science, Thinking

  Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Years, Half, Canada

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• We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

  Alexei Navalny

  Russia, People, Injustice

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• So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

  Daniel Pipes

  Editors, Cartoon, Hamburgers

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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