Quotes About Accommodation

I finally moved out of my parents' house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

DeLillo presents art as the soundest magic against dread, the truest source of radiance and community. Albeit tentatively and ambiguously, Underworld suggests that artists may achieve an accommodation with culture that is also act of resistance. (7)

The hotel I'm in has a lovely closet. A nail.

We always put our guests' wishes first in this establishment.

In every other country across the world, guests staying at a hotel are free to open the windows in their rooms, with the exception of one: the United States. American hotel windows are sealed, or painted shut, or manufactured in such a way that they can't open or close in the first place.

Would you like a menu in Braille?

A man don't always have to change the land. He can find a way to fit in.

Une nouvelle fois, c'est l'accueil d'un hôtel sept étoiles dans les locaux d'un Formule 1.

The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Nature is content with a little and that which is most natural, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew 1:8-15

You shall not find, in nature's immense crucible, a single living being that has shown a like suppleness, a similar abundance of forms, the same prodigious faculty of accommodation to our wishes. This is because, in the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

You get used to whatever you get.

He can stay with us.

The second was Yale's complacent refusal to accommodate its sought-after assistant professor's request for a promotion to associate professor. Such rapid advancement cut against the grain in New Haven. Ernest's academic superiors were unable to see past his youth, much

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Maybe I dance to a different drum, but I get the job done well. I need to be accommodated, not managed.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

I'm not in the hotel business.

For example, your tenant in a wheelchair wants to widen the doorways, lower the bathroom and kitchen countertops, and perhaps install a ramp. The ADA pretty much says you must allow your tenant to make these changes at their expense, providing they return your unit to its original condition when they move out.

And finally, apartments for the most part fit the bill as "short-term temporary housing," just a notch above a hotel or motel. Yes, we can find folks who live in an apartment for years; but most tenants are short-termers and move more frequently than those who take up residence in a house.

Adaptiveness is the shortest road to happiness. Get used to everything around you.

therapists seem to be seeing more and more people at all socioeconomic levels who are deeply in debt—will be glad to take advantage of a therapist's willingness to underwrite their self-defeating habits by reducing the fee or "carrying" them for a while. Not only is it not in the therapist's interest to promote this accommodation, it is not in the client's interest, either.

A human being, as I've said before, gets used to anything.

America is engaged in the world's most ambitious experiment to accommodate itself to the technological distractions made possible by the electric plug.

Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.