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Accustomed Quotes

We’ve collected the best Accustomed Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Enes Kanter, Dorothy Allison, Peter Singer, Rebecca De Mornay, Steve Allen. Use them as an inspiration.

1
Over the years, I’ve become accustomed to the quiet of that morning meal, a time when I devote myself completely to my faith.
Enes Kanter
2
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison
3
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
4
It’s a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We’re more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
Rebecca De Mornay
5
Pretend you‘re a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The point of all this, of course, is to draw yourself out of your accustomed groove.
Steve Allen
6
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser
7
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
8
In Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands. Throughout the hemisphere, paternalistic governments accustom people to receiving just enough to survive instead of participating in society.
Denise Dresser
9
I’d say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren’t always accustomed to going.
Edward Hirsch
10
When you’re in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.
Charlie Murphy
11
It will take time for the idea of decentralized trust through computation to become a part of mainstream consciousness, and until then, the idea creates cognitive dissonance for those accustomed to centralized trust systems.
Andreas Antonopoulos
12
We’re not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren’t part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men – in reality and in fiction – are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.
Marjorie Liu
13
When you’re accustomed to wealth, you don’t show it, right? That’s why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it’s almost like, ‘Don’t show wealth – that’s crass.’
Jay-Z
14
I am not accustomed to protocol.
Evo Morales
15
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.
Bill Alexander
16
I received a lot of criticism maybe because in England they are not accustomed to seeing a playmaker with my skills. Because I’m not a physical player but I think more about playing the ball.
Jorginho
17
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you’re accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it’s as if the bottom dropped out.
Benny Green
18
I’m so accustomed to being alone.
Leighton Meester
19
I think there’s something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I’m generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone.
Elizabeth Debicki
20
Since first starting my career, I’ve grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I’m always the youngest.
Gaspard Ulliel
21
I come from gender-balanced workplaces. I started off working in medicine, and when I went through med school, it’s 50/50 men and women. And when I started working as a doctor, it’s 50/50 men and women. So I’ve always been very accustomed to women occupying pivotal roles in the professional environment.
Jed Mercurio
22
We’ve grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
Alexei Navalny
23
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
24
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.
Mario Lemieux
25
With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.
Peter Lindbergh
26
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
Carl Jung
27
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.
Jacob Collier
28
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
29
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
Michael Bolton
30
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
George Combe
31
We act in so many roles to entertain people and they get accustomed to it. So even if we do something for society in real life, they think it’s for publicity and are not always ready to accept us in that role.
Kirron Kher
32
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.
Martha Gellhorn
33
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
Catherine McCormack
34
In America, they don’t need to look outside their country for anything, so they definitely don’t need to look elsewhere for rappers with weird accents that they have to get accustomed to, which is like homework to them.
AJ Tracey
35
Kids are so accustomed to technology that it’s upsetting to watch them without their phones. They don’t know what to do. Sometimes I feel like I’m like that, too – if I get my phone taken away because I’m grounded, I don’t know what to do. So I just have to sit in my room and stare blankly at the ceiling.
Gaten Matarazzo
36
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
37
I have no problems with the blue astro-turf. I have got used to it, and I believe that we have got sufficient games to get accustomed to playing on blue turf.
Sandeep Singh
38
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.
Mike Crapo
39
Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.
Akiva ben Joseph
40
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Manuel Puig
41
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides
42
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
Martin Jacques
43
I’m accustomed to pressure. It’s what we, as players, live. If you don’t want pressure, then football is not for you.
Roberto Firmino
44
A lot of evangelicals have grown accustomed to feeling used by the political process. Every politician appeals to us, every one wants to hear us out during the campaign, but then things change once they get into office.
Paula White
45
I’m the girl that waits for the director to say, ‘I like that,’ or ‘Can you boost it up?,’ or ‘Can you pull it down?’ I’m that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that’s the feedback that I’m accustomed to. It’s the feedback that I really thrive off of.
Jill Scott
46
The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn’t initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It’s so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.
Tom Rachman
47
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
48
I guess I’ve become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we’ve done quite a lot.
Chris Squire
49
Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.
Douglas Brunt
50
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.
Deborah Sampson
51
For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies – great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
Gayle Lynds
52
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.
David Suzuki
53
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.
Helen Wills Moody
54
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
John Berger
55
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
Daniel Pipes
56
When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China’s transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes – involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
Evan Osnos
57
Not only was it necessary to get the gorillas accustomed to the bluejeaned creature who had become a part of their daily lives, it was also very necessary for me to know and recognize the particular animals of each group as the amazing individuals they were.
Dian Fossey
58
But I think it’s always difficult when a product that you’re using and accustomed to changes.
Mitchell Baker
59
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
60
I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it’s a surprise when somebody’s like, ‘Whatever, I’m not really worried about those things.’
Matt Gonzalez
61
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that ‘thousands‘ has almost passed out of the dictionary.
Everett Dirksen
62
Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you… Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand.
Tara Westover
63
A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine – whether it’s Uncle Joe‘s award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they’re accustomed to rejecting at home.
Adam Mansbach
64
The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.
Miranda Lambert
65
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Richard Cobden
66
I realized that I didn’t need nearly as many calories as I’d grown accustomed to. I ate 100 to 200 calories every two hours or so, consumed healthy proteins (yogurt, lean meat, turkey jerky), and drank a gallon of water a day. And as my weight dropped, my energy soared.
Adam Richman
67
Homosexuality is a way of life that I’ve grown accustomed to.
Johnny Mathis
68
‘Salaryitis’ is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
E. Joseph Cossman
69
It definitely does take some time to get accustomed to the character you’re portraying and takes an equal amount of time to get out of it.
Sanya Malhotra
70
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.
Bill Blass
71
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
Andrei Codrescu
72
Don’t argue that you can’t find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can’t find a job that will support you in the style to which you have been accustomed.
Charles Murray
73
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
74
I’d known the Duke of Edinburgh over a period of 40 years, so I’d long been accustomed to his sense of humor.
Gyles Brandreth
75
Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.
Yvette Mimieux
76
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
Major Owens
77
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
Sabine Baring-Gould
78
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
79
The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we’re accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that’s instantaneous… What’s interesting and powerful about the mobile environment is that it’s connected to services on the Internet. This augments both platforms.
Vint Cerf
80
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
Albert Bushnell Hart
81
We wanted people to remember the name as soon as they heard it. When people become so accustomed to the Wii name, nobody is going to say it’s a strange name, just like nobody is going to say that Google is a strange name or IKEA is a strange name today.
Satoru Iwata
82
To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.
Jean Piaget
83
English football is a lot different to Spanish football but Soldado is an international for Spain, he is a player who has become accustomed to playing against great teams – and he has always scored goals.
Mario Kempes
84
Obviously, I’ve made several films in Korea, so I’m very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
Kim Jee-woon
85
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.
Carter G. Woodson
86
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.
Chris Bell
87
I’m not accustomed to taking a swing at a woman‘s head. That’s not in my DNA.
Michael Trucco
88
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
P. J. O’Rourke
89
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint‘s family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
90
I am accustomed to making the most out of my opportunities.
Fabio Quagliarella
91
When an injury robs a player of his ability to train the way he’s accustomed to, there is nearly always an alternative.
Gabe Kapler
92
I’ve always had an appreciation of my life and the lifestyle me and my family have become accustomed to. It’s more to do with the little things.
Jermaine Jenas
93
Really, all coaches are accustomed to coaching… normal players.
Gerardo Martino
94
Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
Adam Driver
95
Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it’s not impossible to know someone who’s like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
Antonya Nelson
96
I’m not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.
John Hurt
97
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
98
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now – partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn’t all that fun doing the work anymore.
Orson Scott Card
99
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.
James J. Gibson
100
Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.
Li Ning
101
Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
Joel Osteen
102
If you don’t have the energy or time to walk your dog, what I recommend is a doggie treadmill. It takes a little while to get the dogs accustomed to it and they are expensive, but if you’re looking for a lavish gift for a dog that’s fat, it’s really great.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
103
People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers.
Mildred Dresselhaus
104
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
James Salter
105
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
John Muir
106
I’d grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.
Philip Schultz
107
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.
Moshe Sharett
108
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair‘s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
Molly Ivins
109
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
110
I can’t say Boston is ‘home-home.’ It’s definitely a place I’m growing accustomed to. It’s such a great sports town.
Wes Welker
111
When a change in how some element of one’s business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.
Andy Grove
112
Nobody is accustomed to play in front of an empty stadium.
Luka Modric
113
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
Carl von Clausewitz
114
We’re not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.
Mark Manson
115
Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we’ve grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.
Charlie Brooker
116
Steve had a broad, easy smile and the biggest hands I had ever seen. I could tell by his stature and stride that he was accustomed to hard work.
Terri Irwin
117
I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful.
Claire Denis
118
When you have a country that’s been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
Mike Lee
119
I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.
Mario Lemieux
120
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
William Godwin
121
My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I’m accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account.
Twyla Tharp
122
As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it’s always great to live and work in a city – you feel like you are truly living a life there.
Miranda Otto
123
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
124
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
125
Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that’s something I’m accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn’t bother me.
Tim Ferriss
126
The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
Zac Goldsmith
127
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
Joel Barlow
128
It’s the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that’s an area I need to get more accustomed to.
Jeremy Lin
129
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
Samuel Freeman Miller
130
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Jesse Helms
131
It would be great to read a script, which is an action script uniquely written so that it doesn’t cost an arm or a leg because we are now accustomed to seeing action in the superhero form.
Abhay Deol
132
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
Octavia Spencer
133
Five has always been this brilliant, very cunning, and weird little mind, so a number suited him, in a way, and he grew accustomed to it. The younger version of him is this bitter, not very sharing or necessarily caring person.
Aidan Gallagher
134
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
135
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
Mireille Mathieu
136
I’m accustomed to being harassed.
Maxine Waters
137
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.
Brian Bosworth
138
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
Euripides
139
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.
John Battelle
140
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.
Perrey Reeves
141
By law and institutional culture, FDA seeks to apply a single tool to its approach to regulation – the requirement for pre-market approval. The agency is accustomed to compelling innovators to submit evidence to FDA and seek permission for marketing.
Scott Gottlieb
142
When you’re accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.
Raphael Warnock
143
The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn’t wired that way. You’re accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
Ken Venturi
144
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo