My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L. A. , running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.
If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a kind of school for humility than it should be, and we will become too accustomed to regarding children as instruments of our ambition and of our desires.
Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
Most parents are accustomed to dealing with problems in the heat of the moment.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.
In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.
One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.
The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
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.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics. '
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.