Accustomed Quotations

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

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.

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.

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.

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.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

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.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open grounds of London. I doubt, in fact, whether any person fully comprehends their extent, from any of the ordinary descriptions of them, until he has seen them or tried to walk over them.

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

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.

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.

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.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

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.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

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.

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.

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.

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.

It's possible that Generation Facebook, accustomed as it is to a whole range of experiences that it only imbibes online, doesn't have the same need for physical interaction in order to be creative as previous generations still do. It's possible that Generation Facebook can co-create and collaborate quite happily from afar.

Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

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.

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.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

We are seeing Australia being drawn back to the way the rest of the world has to play Test cricket because without either of their two all-time greats - McGrath and Warne - they just cannot play like they have become accustomed to,

We've become accustomed to let officials handle everything.

when we do get to the point where we need all the services in space that we have become accustomed to on Earth.

We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but it's something that we've grown accustomed to over the years.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

We're accustomed to this. I'm just glad we don't have to travel.

We're accustomed to the insights of government officials being authoritative. Greenspan's comments may be wise, but they aren't actionable anymore.

We ran into a really good basketball team. They played at a level that our girls are not accustomed to playing against. Our girls didn't know how to handle it until it was late in the third and fourth. Our intensity level picked up, but it was too little, too late.

The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself

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.

We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does.

This program is much more about players than most. Jim came in, immediately got to know so much about each individual player and his family and about their experiences. It's a much more personal approach than most were accustomed to. Within the family, it became a small-college feel.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Mainland is accustomed to playing in big games, and they did what they had to do to win. We helped them some and hurt ourselves at the same time with some big mistakes, and you can't do that against a club like Mainland.

Many, particularly elderly people who are accustomed to getting flu shots from private physicians or those in nursing homes and institutional settings, are not able to get their flu shots. Health departments, which customarily plan on having clinics in mid to late October are having to postpone or cancel until such time as they get an adequate supply of vaccine.

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.

Shannon Stewart is a good hitter. Last year he didn't put up the type of numbers he is accustomed to. I anticipate him having a good year.

She is Venus personified. Her hair is naturally beautiful without artificial enhancement, and her sophisticated air tells us she has the queen gene. Gentlemen, start your engines; she's high-maintenance. She puts in the time to be gorgeous every day and is accustomed to lots of adoration.

MTV's constituency is probably more accustomed to outlandish behavior than the prime demographic for a Super Bowl audience. Wall Street would look at that (the controversy and any fine) more as a one-time event, not as a change in underlying earnings power.

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

Obviously, we're in a position we're not accustomed to being, but there are no promises out there. We'll see how we handle this particular position.

One whose auditory sense has been accustomed to being comfortable with one kind tune misses out the spectacularity of the symphony.

Online brokers face a lot of challenges with technical issues -- Merrill is no different. They aren't accustomed to operating at Internet speeds.

My days aren't numbered, but they're close to it. But this is a course I'm very accustomed to. I've played this course for 25 years. If I can play really well, I think I can catch Rory. If he plays well, we're all done.

My doctors and trainers have advised me that my leg needs to fully recover in order for me to play at the level that I'm accustomed to playing.

(Municipal Auditorium) is a different setting from what we are used to playing in, since we play mostly in small gyms. I just want the guys to get accustomed to playing in a different environment.

My ankle feels fine. It hasn't bothered me since I began playing again last year, it's just a case of getting accustomed again to playing on an everyday basis.

My father wrote poetry all the time and published a great deal so I was accustomed to it, and I wrote a little bit at Oxford, but not much.

New Hampshire Day at Fenway Park is sold out as most games are sold out. It's nice to be able to develop the baseball atmosphere that we want our fans to be accustomed to here at the ball park,

Obviously, change is difficult. Anytime you take something away someone is accustomed to, there's going to be some hand wringing. But Sun did an excellent job of restructuring, so there could be some win-wins.

Right now, I don't know how we're going to work everything out. You don't say this is why things are going the way they are on the field, but there are little things you'd like to do, things that you're accustomed to. I mean, we've got a trash can for a cold tub.

Peter is an IT professional who is not accustomed to the rough-and-tumble world of politics. He found the last few months to be very distasteful, especially the Boston Globe article that seemed to imply some sort of improper influence related to his conference travel.

PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.

Because of the injury, he's been frustrated all year. He's not able to play at the level he's accustomed to.

Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 people swarming to the ball, gang tackling. We're doing a lot better job of that this year, a lot more like were accustomed to.

Chris is a very mature player for his age. He has to get accustomed to the schedule, accustomed to the rigors of the practice, travel, amount of games and keeping your physical edge while adjusting to the wear and tear of the pro game.

I have always been accustomed to that role, even going back to college. But the great thing is, I have a backcourt mate who's accustomed to it, too. So teams really have to pick their poison as far as who is going to take that shot.

I feel powerless to not be able to defend my world title, ... I'm frustrated because it's one thing to miss the world's if you're not in shape or strong enough, but it's another because of injury. These things happen in cycling and unfortunately I've become accustomed (to being sidelined with injuries).

I feel like I'm accustomed to Spring Training. It's like, just hurry up and get it over with. Let's start it up again and strap it on. I'm really eager. You can bet I'm going to do well.

I can't say enough for what this program has done for those involved. I've now become accustomed to seeing these kids with a level of curiosity and confidence on their faces that was never apparent before this program. Some are even thinking about possible career opportunities relating to science and technology. What more could one want from a program like this?

If a family has not been accustomed to separation of parents, then negotiating ... and adding another family can add a little bit of conflict.

The people on both sides of the water were accustomed to an orderly government, in which laws were made and administered with regularity and dignity.

We're playing upside-down baseball. But that's been our story. There's always somebody doing something he's not accustomed to doing.

to free other people and to let them enjoy the freedoms that we have become accustomed to since the founding of our nation.

Here at Dover, this is one of the toughest tracks that I have been able to get accustomed to,

He?s gotten more accustomed to our system and more confident in his style. We had a feeling we?d have a nice inside-outside threat.

Underdog, that's something that we've been accustomed to, playing in Philadelphia. We're always the underdog.

I also feel it usually takes 4 or 5 races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.

He just didn't locate like we're accustomed to seeing him locate. But I think that will be forthcoming. It was good for Andy to bounce back after his last outing.

Josh really needed to red-shirt last year, and he's made great progress. There has never been a question about Josh's strength because he bench-presses the world. He knows he has to improve on his footwork and he's now accustomed to the tempo at this level. He's getting better every day.

I think it was just a conscious effort just to play better. I think if we had played like this throughout this losing streak a lot of games would have gone differently. I thought tonight, after the game a lot of players really hurt because of the loss. Early with a loss, we'd just get accustomed to it. This is a game that really hurt because I think that people really played their heart out and really tried to win.

It has a much faster pace than football or boxing. And it's something the younger generation has been accustomed to now: instant solutions and continuous action. This also may be a way for men to show their manhood, so to speak (when they gather to watch these events as fans). It's male bonding and a way to show that one is tough.

I was accustomed to feeling that I was better than the other guys, that I had a mental edge,

I think they'll be fine. Sometimes a short preparation can almost be beneficial, because you tend just to concentrate on what you need to do to play well. They also have a stack of representative players in their team and those guys are quite accustomed to backing up within a few days. We won't be taking them lightly.

I think everyone saw (tonight) just how important Lee is to this team. We had guys handling the ball at certain times that aren't accustomed to that. We made a lot mistakes in the second half and Whitefield took advantage of it. You have to give them credit.

Our guys are smart guys. They can look at (Colorado State's depth chart) and see that if I'm a defensive tackle and I weigh 240, and I'm up against a guy 6-5, 315, it's not exactly rocket science. We know Colorado State is bigger. It's something our guys have kind of grown accustomed to. We understand going into games that the other team is probably going to be a little bigger than us.

Our kids feel comfortable running on this track. They're more accustomed to running on tracks that aren't banked. They feel like they're at home, so it's just great for all of the area teams around here.

Overall, it was a good day. I'm getting more accustomed to driving a Champ Car and I'm very thankful to PKV for this opportunity and their help. I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get my time down into the 51-second range, but the day went well and I'm happy with the way I drove. We still have some work to do tomorrow.