At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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.
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.
Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.
Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.
Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
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. '
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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.
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.
Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.
I'm so accustomed to being alone.