Quotes About Accommodation

That's what the British do, you know. They accommodate, and then they assimilate. It's very effective. It's their way of disarming the opposition, and it works.

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

Accommodation to parental needs often (but not always) leads to the "as-if personality." This person develops in such a way that he reveals only what is expected of him and fuses so completely with what he reveals that one could scarcely guess how much more there is to him behind this false self.

The band had to stay in outhouses with stone floors," Jo Jo complained. "We got the impression they had only ever been used for animals. True, they had been swept out, but I was most unhappy. . . . We had an old-fashioned bathtub, and we had to fill it with hot water from pots and pans. [Even though] I was eight months pregnant, I was never offered a wash or a bath in Paul and Linda's place.

Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you've got.

"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

THE SIGNORA HAD NO business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a court-yard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is, what you can and can't do. Same in running.

I always ask for the exit row when flying. Airlines are pretty accommodating and most of the time I'll get it.

Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it.

I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it's up to you to adapt to English football because you can't change it. I think I've achieved something in the way I adapted.

I go out of my way to accommodate people and out of my way to forgive them.

I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor.

When I was working for Radio 1 in Ibiza I stayed in a horrible place with a tiny window and really noisy air conditioning - the last thing you need in Ibiza, where you're often a little bit the worse for wear at the end of the night.

Save the Children is also working to improve accommodation for refugee families living outside settlements. I met a family which had been living in a substandard building without windows, doors or a toilet.

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.

Moi aussi peut-être, en réfléchissant bien, j'aurais pu rechercher un emploi dans un de ces bureaux dont je lisais les pancartes éclatantes du dehors... Mais à la pensée d'avoir à pénétrer dans une de ces maisons je m'effarais et m'effondrais de timidité. Mon hôtel me suffisait. Tombe gigantesque et odieusement animée.

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.