Saint Bernard Quotes

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

The longer you experience a scene, you tend to accept what's going on.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

People always get used to beauty though.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

After awhile you could get used to anything.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.