Accustomed Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Institutions

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• The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Feelings, Lust

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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• It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, Space, Imagination

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.150, Penguin

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• Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Boys, Names

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1549, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

  Helen Wills

  New York, Player, August

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• Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Vision, Lenses

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, University of Chicago Press

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• The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Affliction

  "In Eutropium". II. 149,

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• I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

  Patrice Evra

  Rain

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• We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

  Dana Reeve

  Pain, Joy, Challenges

  "Dana Reeve's Fight Against Lung Cancer". Access Hollywood Interview, www.today.com. August 10, 2005.

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• A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Food, Men

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• Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

  Samuel Johnson

  Solitude, Too Much, Study

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.185

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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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• Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

  Moliere

  Innocence

  "Don Garcie de Navarre". II. 5, 1661.

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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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• Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

  Jason Priestley

  Giving Up, Years, Acting

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• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  Octavia Spencer

  Rights, Parent, Generations

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• I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.

  Wes Welker

  Sports, Home, Boston

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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.

  Mike Lee

  Country, Government, Levels

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• Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

  Catherine McCormack

  Directors, Actors, Process

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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