#accustomed

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about. ↗

— Bill Blass

#accustomed #bored #change #eye #fashion

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#get #hard #road #you

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#am #ask #boldly #boldness #faith

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#arrested #being #constantly #grown #injustice

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#books #fully #gets #information #kind

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

#being #believe #former #latter #means

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

#children #dr #during #family #first

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#accustomed #actually #asleep #cannon #circumstances

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

I'm so accustomed to being alone. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#alone #being #being alone #i