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You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true. — Emily Blunt

One becomes gradually accustomed to poison. — Victor Hugo

Not accustomed to entertaining angels, are we?" he asked. — Mark Andrew Poe

They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it; — Jean Webster

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin. — Otto Von Bismarck

Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it. — Eric Drooker

Speak ill of yourself when by yourself; then you will become accustomed both to speak and to hear the truth. — Seneca.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

We are accustomed to losing things we love and people we adore but that doesn't change the fact that loss hurts. — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. — Charlotte Bronte

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. — Moliere

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it. — Laurence J. Peter

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. — Pope Francis

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees — Victor Hugo

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. — Albert Bushnell Hart

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. — Arthur Golden

Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult. — Charlotte Bronte

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me. — Tim Ferriss

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. — Betty Smith

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think. — Leigh M. Lane

We've grown accustomed to living smaller and more simply. — Nancy Petralia

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this. — Susan Jane Gilman

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own. — Andrei Codrescu

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. — Vladimir Lenin

It is high time Americans grew accustomed to our traditions. — James Rollins

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

We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And — Sherry Turkle

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm. — Barbara Tuchman

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to. — Deepak Chopra

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary. — Everett Dirksen

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,
am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first. — Henry David Thoreau

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable. — Iris Murdoch

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. — Lorna Luft

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at. — Guy De Maupassant

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. — Bryan Burrough

But the dreadful thing about wicked ideas is that bit by bit wicked minds can become accustomed to them. — Alexandre Dumas

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

A man should therefore grow accustomed to his state and complain about it as little as possible, seizing upon whatever good it may have. — Seneca.

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. — Guillaume Apollinaire

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. — Tabare Vazquez

He stiffened and said with great dignity, I am a natural scientist. We are accustomed to dealing with shit. — Rick Yancey

Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes. — Neal Stephenson

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is. — Robin Hobb

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron De Montesquieu

At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to — Isabel Allende

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable. — Rush Limbaugh

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel De Montaigne

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

I learned quickly that there is nothing easier to grow accustomed to than luxury. — Christopher Hebert

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. — Helen Rowland

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service. — Neil Cavuto

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

Ms. Bennett, do you know who I am? I am not accustomed to being spoken to in such a manner. — Jane Austen

We grow accustomed to the dark when light is put away
— Emily Dickinson

I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. — Claire Denis

If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have. — Alice Hoffman

... but then boys are so strange with their toys. Especially those accustomed to losing things. They hold on more tightly than the rest. — Victoria Aveyard

People with victim mentality get accustomed to life with an assistance of someone's mind, waiting for someone to make decisions for him — Sunday Adelaja

Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment. — Barack Obama

Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service. — M T Anderson

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous. — Isaac Asimov

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him. — Leo Tolstoy

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything. - FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY — Dan Ariely

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King Jr.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think. — Arthur Frederick Saunders

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it. — Edmund Hillary

Perhaps I have become so accustomed to the burden of secrets that I do not notice their weight until I am free of it. — Sabaa Tahir

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. — Dana Reeve

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type. — James Salter

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. — Kenzaburo Oe

Why are habits so hard to break? Because the cells on our insides get accustomed to what we are doing on the outside. — Charles F. Glassman

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. — Euripides

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking. — Kim Ji-woon

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded. — Timothy Holme

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible. — Bill Johnson

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. — Thomas C. Mann

I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy more solid ground — Audrey Niffenegger

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work. — Bill Dedman

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing. — Michael Bolton

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

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have. — Paulo Coelho

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. — Franklin P. Adams

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it. — Miranda Lambert

It was not accustomed to being summoned. — Laura Oliva

Times arise in life, when you have to choose between something you have become accustomed to and something you wanted to have. — Paulo Coelho

They were accustomed to being interrupted. Whoever was hungriest to speak, spoke. I wasn't hungry in that same way. I was hungry to listen. — Rachel Kushner

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves. — Honore De Balzac

When you're going in the right direction, life always looks larger than what you're accustomed to. — Karyn Henley

I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself. — Bill Rodgers

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed. — Elia Kazan

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13 — L. Frank Baum

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Snagsby, as a timid man, is accustomed to cough with a variety of expressions, and so to save words. — Charles Dickens

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves. — Beth Moore