Terry McMillan Quotes

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

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..

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

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

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.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

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

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.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

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

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

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

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

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.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

Low and I needed some time to get used to each other.

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

Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time