#accustomed

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

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#become #big #big government #choice #conservatism

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

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'm so accustomed to being alone. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#alone #being #being alone #i

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#appears #between #enter #god #hardly

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#nature

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anymore #became #because #change #cut

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#bad #become #get #good #sad

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#accustomed #basis #behavior #beings #cooperate