Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.
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.
We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
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.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr. , L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee. ]
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.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.
So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you know, really a love song, but what we see on stage is we see one puppet that's got a ridiculous blonde wig on and she looks ridiculous, and next to her is a head that's just a piece of fabric with a pretty face on it.
I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.
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 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.
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
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.
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.