Accustomed Quotes

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

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.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

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.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

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

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

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.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

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.

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.

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.

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

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.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

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.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

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.

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.

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.

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.