Accustomed Quotes

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

I'm a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

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

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

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.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.