New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
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.
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty. . . once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.
As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.
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.
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.
The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
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.
Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
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.
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
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.
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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.
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.