Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation…

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