Top 25 Accommodates Quotes
#1. He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Juvenal
#3. History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
Rick Warren
#4. A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.
Justus Von Liebig
#5. Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.
Karen Marie Moning
#6. God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might say, God does not depend on a human being so fully--until Mary conceives by the Holy Spirit. (pg. 16)
Ellen F. Davis
#7. The mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
Fanny Burney
#8. The gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.
Rebecca Solnit
#9. A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. Bike lane: the section of the road that accommodates wide loads and has speed bumps to protect drunk drivers.
Bauvard
#11. There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
Duncan Campbell
#12. The measure of a design is how easily it accommodates changes. With no changes, it's a runner who never leaves the starting line.
Robert Nystrom
#13. In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.
Jacob A. Riis
#14. A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren't really there to begin with.
Jesse James Garrett
#15. To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
#16. Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#17. My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.
Joy Harjo
#18. Zoe refers to the aggregate. Bios accommodates the notion of death, that each life has a beginning, middle, and end, that each life contains a story. Zoe, wrote Kerenyi, "does not admit of the experience of its own destruction: it is experienced without end, as infinite life.
Twyla Tharp
#19. He who welcomes anger impairs himself.
He who harbors hate harms himself.
He who entertains envy consumes himself.
He who accommodates bitterness hurts himself.
He who cherishes greed injures himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.
Dana Spiotta
#21. For every year humans had been modern, they had been primitive for seven hundred more, which left a residue, and by then the back part of my brain was firmly in charge - My tribe needs you gone, pal. And you're ugly, too. And you're a pussy.
Lee Child
#22. One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.
Paul Cezanne
#23. They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
Erik Larson
#25. Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete
Pope John Paul II