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Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. -- Franklin P. Adams
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others -- Milarepa
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. -- John Lahr
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders. -- John Herschel
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression "being points beyond itself" may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20 years old, and it's great to do that piece again now and see that it still really works as well as it ever did. -- Brian Henson
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. -- Abraham Lincoln
I am not accustomed to protocol. -- Evo Morales
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. -- Victor Hugo
The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it. -- Miranda Lambert
Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work. -- Bill Dedman
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. -- Vladimir Lenin
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. -- Carl von Clausewitz
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
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
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. -- Hernan Cortes
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. -- Peter Singer
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. -- Kylie Minogue
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. -- Marcus Aurelius
As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit. -- Monica Johnson
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. -- Aron Ralston
I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do. -- J. R. Martinez
I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne. -- John Wayne
When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in. -- Tim Howard
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. -- Edward Thorndike
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. -- Oscar Wilde
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. -- Fritz Kreisler
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease. -- S. Jay Olshansky
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy. -- Saint Ambrose
I'm so accustomed to being alone. -- Leighton Meester
Nature is accustomed to hide itself. -- Heraclitus
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. -- Moliere
It was not accustomed to being summoned. -- Laura Oliva
Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently. -- Graeme Simsion
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. -- Euripides
Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to. -- Michel de Montaigne
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little. -- Jose Saramago
I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. -- Leo Tolstoy
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified? -- Randy Alcorn
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. -- Eric Gill
Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it. -- L. Frank Baum
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. -- Michel de Montaigne
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. -- Claudius Claudianus
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin. -- Otto von Bismarck
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. -- Leonard Cohen
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. -- Arthur Golden
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. -- Lorna Luft
I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. -- Claire Denis
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others? -- Plautus
I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it. -- Rafael Correa
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company. -- Edith Wharton
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.] -- Moliere
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns. -- Guido Westerwelle
Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable. -- Rush Limbaugh
We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully. -- Alexei Navalny
Most parents are accustomed to dealing with problems in the heat of the moment. -- Ross W. Greene
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. -- Dana Reeve
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. -- E. V. Lucas
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed. -- Elia Kazan
Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to. -- Tiger Woods
It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly. -- Suzanne La Follette
I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that. -- Fan Bingbing
So much time spent believingwe had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to hauntingourselves. -- D.J. MacLennan
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. -- Karl Kraus
I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style. -- Brian Bosworth
I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. -- Mario Lemieux
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. -- Andreas Vesalius
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. -- Berthold Auerbach
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. -- Ian Hacking
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. -- Mitchell Baker
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. -- Arthur Twining Hadley
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us. -- Graham Greene
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh. -- Lois Lowry
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. -- Ovid
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. -- Dorothy Allison
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have. -- Paulo Coelho
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it. -- Laurence J. Peter
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb -- Robertson Davies
Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. -- Pope Francis
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage. -- Joel Barlow
...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it. -- Christina Dodd
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. -- Anthony Michael Hall
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. -- Tabare Vazquez
The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded. -- Timothy Holme
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories. -- Steven Spielberg
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision. -- Thomas Kuhn
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. -- Julia Cameron
Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm. -- Barbara Tuchman
It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service. -- Neil Cavuto
I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time. -- Patrice Evra
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. -- Kenzaburo Oe
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. -- John Tillotson
Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible. -- Bill Johnson
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. -- Rene Descartes
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. -- Charlotte Bronte
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. -- E. M. Forster
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry. -- Pope Francis
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest. -- Gaspard Ulliel
Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous. -- Isaac Asimov
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves -- Samuel Johnson
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary. -- Everett Dirksen
It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having. -- Frankie Rayder
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary." -- Everett Dirksen
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. -- Leo Tolstoy

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