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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.
I had to give up a lot of foods that I'm accustomed to eating: dairy products, beer, wine, spicy food.
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
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.
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.
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.
We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.
I've always had an appreciation of my life and the lifestyle me and my family have become accustomed to. It's more to do with the little things.
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
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.
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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.
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.
Over the years, I've become accustomed to the quiet of that morning meal, a time when I devote myself completely to my faith.
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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.
I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
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.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.
As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.
I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.
It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.
With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
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.
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.
We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.
I'd known the Duke of Edinburgh over a period of 40 years, so I'd long been accustomed to his sense of humor.
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.
It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
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.
The thing I love about electric vehicles is not stopping in gas stations. We're so accustomed to that... Now I'm in control of when I refuel.
Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
