Quotes About Accommodation

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

It wasn't at all what I expected. I guess I've seen too many Fawlty Towers reruns with Mom, so I had pictured a run-down place with eccentric characters running around. The Cardington was as modern and comfy as a Holiday Inn.

David Michael walked up to the desk and rang the bell. "Yes?" asked Karen. "May I help you?" "I'm Bruce Stringbean," said David Michael, giggling. "I'm a big rock and roll star and I need a room for me and my manager and all my friends.

Therefore the yogic adept achieves his goal not by imploring the Tao to favour him but by learning to accommodate himself to its harmonious workings.

When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar. The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.

First, just because people's religious beliefs can be easily accommodated, it does not follow that they should. Sometimes accommodations reinforce sentiments that ought to be repudiated. Second, given that one of the best reasons for religious accommodations is the history of antireligious discrimination, religious accommodations ought not be used as a license to discriminate.

Some views are truly bad enough that they deserve repudiation rather than accommodation. To

We make it especially hard for others to observe our trait because we are so responsive to our environments that we can be something like chameleons when around others, doing whatever it takes to fit in. I

Further, we are so responsive to our environments that we can be somewhat like chameleons when around others, doing whatever it takes to fit in.

painful truth that, without outside help, the codependent partner will accommodate to the functional level of the less healthy partner.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

I'm not fussy at all; I've been raised to adjust myself in any circumstance.

I think I could have adapted to left-handed golf better to right-handed batting.

This is Staples. On a good day, we get to stay at the Marriott Courtyard. We have a frugal culture.

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.

The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve." F'lar liked that touch of F'nor's, totting up the wing strength, as if Fax were incapable of counting.

Let's find someplace where there aren't any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that's big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara) Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)

I'm staying here tonight. I can bunk on the floor. (Nathan) What if I say no? (Terri) I'll just break in after you go to sleep and still bunk on the floor. (Nathan)

We drew lots for the sleeping spaces," he pointed out, striving to keep a reasonable tone. Ulf shrugged petulantly. "Well, if I'd known I was going to be so close to the door, I would have drawn a different one." Hal gave up trying to be reasonable. He glared at Ulf. "Do you realize how abysmally stupid that statement is?" he demanded.

You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.