I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting. -
Boris Pasternak
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. -
Leon Trotsky
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. -
Claudian [Claudius Claudianus]
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
The less routine the more life. -
Amos Bronson Alcott
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. -
Marcus Aurelius
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. -
Thomas Jefferson
Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of god, fate, fortune, luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. (The Devil's Dictionary) -
Ambrose Bierce
The only routine with me is no routine at all. -
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
