#accustomed

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

#beautiful #beautiful day #being #canyon #day

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#become #disguise #disguised #end #in the end

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

#best #democracy #educate #give #majority

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

#affluence #back #countries #developed #developed countries

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

#accustomed #back #couple #couple times #course

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

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

— Mitchell Baker

#always #changes #difficult #i #i think

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

#am #compliments #cowards #deserve #english

I'm so accustomed to being alone. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#alone #being #being alone #i

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#nature