#accustomed

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#accustomed #act #anger #crying #cult thing

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

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

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#beautiful #beautiful day #being #canyon #day

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#become #disguise #disguised #end #in the end

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

#become #begin #characteristics #charming #cherish

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. ↗

— David Suzuki

#accustomed #argue #become #build #coal

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#demands #depend #general #heavy #his

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

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#adjustment #back #because #book #challenging