Acclimatized Quotes & Sayings

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. — Marty Feldman

Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger. — Leo Strauss

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison. — Mackenzie Herbert

I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles. — Sharlto Copley

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly — Bhagat Singh

Once upon a simpler time, before apps, iPads, Samsung Galaxies, and the world of blazing-fast 4G, weekends were the busiest days of the week at Discount Electronix. Now the kids who used to come in to buy CDs are downloading Vampire Weekend from iTunes, while their elders are surfing eBay or watching the TV shows they missed on Hulu. — Stephen King

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized. — Agatha Christie

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time. — Albert Camus

Her soft voice played over his senses like it always had, her English accent more pronounced than ever. Or was that because his ears had become acclimatized to the Australian accents around him again?
He didn't know.
He pulled in a slow breath, headache forgotten, the subtle scent of Emily's perfume filtering into his body. His stomach knotted, his balls grew harder, that delicate fragrance flooding him with memories too haunting to bear. She'd cured him of anaplastic astrocytoma, and in the process inflicted him with something else. Something powerful and - he was discovering all too quickly - inescapable. — Lexxie Couper

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged. — Michael Korda

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved. — Luke Rhinehart

It is not beauty that makes you strong--it is adversity. — Debasish Mridha

Beginning in the 1980s, electronic trading detached the buyer from the seller, complex derivatives insulated the investor from the company, CDOs sequestered the lender from the borrower - in other words, the decade constructed a system that allowed us to rip each other off without fear of having to look at the ramifications of our actions. — David Sirota

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides. — Anne Lamott

God's strength makes us strong; His comfort comforts us. With Him, we no longer run; we rest. — Dillon Burroughs

The word 'tight' has twenty-two definitions, but my favorite is Webster's fifth - "a bond which cannot be broken. — Alessandra Torre

When you're young, you're stupid. — Wendy Hiller

With all the wonders Moses was performing, there was one I did not think would ever come to pass: that we would finally be reunited. That I would once again kiss his neck as I had loved to do. That I would see him clasp his sons to his breast. — Marek Halter