Accommodating Quotes

#1. Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.

Jon Katz

#2. The tribal leaders saw that we were bad-asses, and they'd better get their act together, work together, and stop accommodating the insurgents. Force moved that battle. We killed the bad guys and brought the leaders to the peace table. That is how the world works.

Chris Kyle

#3. I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Vera Farmiga

#4. Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.

Jane Leavy

#5. Fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

Camryn Manheim

#6. Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.

Rita Rudner

#7. And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. A woman's life, always changing, accommodating, then shedding, old duties for new; one person's expectations for another until finally, victoriously, emerging stronger. Complete.

Melanie Benjamin

#9. Jerry Falwell says, on Pat Robertson's program, that the reason we got attacked on 9/11 is that we were accommodating the ACLU and abortion and homosexuals and feminists in America, so God smacked us down.

John Shelby Spong

#10. Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ... duct tape.

Cornelia Funke

#11. Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.

Ellen Key

#12. Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. No wonder he was so sweet and accommodating. His mother was like a damn fairy flittering around bringing goodness to the world in the form of wine and hot sons.

Kate Roth

#14. 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.

Derek Hough

#15. Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Sun Tzu

#16. Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

Ron Suskind

#17. I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.

Yoko Ono

#18. I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.

Woody Allen

#19. Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists.

Richard Dawkins

#20. If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

Pema Chodron

#21. He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to comfortable, from sad to happy, from unfair to accommodating. Anything was possible in his imagination. Any ending. If only thinking it could make it so.

Kevin Henkes

#22. America has given us a pretty decent modern world and doesn't always get enough thanks for that. But for reasons that genuinely escape me, it has also become spectacularly accommodating to stupidity. Where

Bill Bryson

#23. Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

David Cottrell

#24. The heart of a good mother is as big as the ocean; accommodating all kind of things and sweeping all unwanted things to its shores!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

Buzz Aldrin

#26. Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#27. Sarah liked to think that night was the best time to work on staying silly and childish. Darkness always seemed more understanding about those sorts of things. More accommodating. Tonight

Cat Hellisen

#28. What frustrates U.S. officials is that China sometimes seems more comfortable accommodating a strong United States, as it did in past decades, than partnering with an America that's less dominant.

David Ignatius

#29. We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

Kevin Plank

#30. Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.

Charles Stross

#31. The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response

Nathan Rosenberg

#32. I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

Justin Broadrick

#33. I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive.

David Bedrick

#34. They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms - not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

Paula McLain

#35. The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.

Shiri Appleby

#36. Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the desire to be accommodating is very strong, and can lead you to say 'yes' without enough consideration.

Gretchen Rubin

#37. Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

Robert Boswell

#38. Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please explain to him that I am a son of a bitch

Robert A. Heinlein

#39. Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.

Vera Farmiga

#40. The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

John Lewis

#41. Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

P.D. James

#42. I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

Jenna McCarthy

#43. I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

Campbell McGrath

#44. Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

Peter J. Carroll

#45. It is easier to get on with vices than with virtues. The vices, accommodating by nature, help each other, are full of mutual indulgence, whereas the jealous virtues combat and annihilate each other, showing in everything their incompatibility and their intolerence

Emil Cioran

#46. Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

Sylvia Boorstein

#47. Take accessible to mean / acceptable, accommodating, openly servile.

Geoffrey Hill

#48. Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

Stephen Chbosky

#49. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

Adrian Tan

#50. The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

Sloane Crosley

#51. Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Timothy Noah

#52. My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

Jeri Ryan

#53. I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers ... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

C.S. Lewis

#54. They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

Jane Austen

#55. She didn't want to need anything, particularly something - or someone - she quite simply couldn't have. Too much had been taken from her already, and she'd had enough of accommodating pain, of straightening her spine, of soldiering on

Julie Anne Long

#56. Women hold the keys to masculine behavior. Guys are inclined to take what they can get and be no more accommodating than they have to be.

James C. Dobson

#57. Like this, Rook." Ford's soft words vibrate into me. "I like you. I'd like to show you how much, actually. I'm being a gentleman to make life easier for you, but believe me, it's not really in my nature to be so accommodating. I typically just take what I want.

J.A. Huss

#58. The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding.

Andrew Skurka

#59. He had no right to look so accommodating when I knew the sort of man he really was; the sort who sacrificed his own son in the name of science, the sort who used his daughter to entrap a Prince of Hell. I'd known demons more human than Adam Harper.

Pippa DaCosta

#60. You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

Frederick Lenz