Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility…

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of…

— R. C. Sproul

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of…

— Esther Hicks

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

— Edward Greenspon

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

— Dana Reeve

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…

— Mike Crapo

If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your…

— Mitchell Baker

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times…

— J. William Fulbright

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies…

— Marcus Aurelius

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how…

— Corra May Harris

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into…

— Cameron Diaz

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the…

— Richard Rodriguez