Quotes About Accommodations

#1. You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Alan Furst

#2. So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Robert Sternberg

#3. How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

Charles Brockden Brown

#4. Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties
busybodies
can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

Thomas Sowell

#5. We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation.

Michael H. Moskow

#6. I finally decided to adopt guidelines rather than set a budget. If it could be done at home, skip it. If I had done it before, skip it. If the odds were that I would never have another chance to do it, do it. Scrimp on meals, transportation and accommodations.

Kristine K. Stevens

#7. The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

Ray Stannard Baker

#8. There is a lot of fuss about whether or not Asperger's is on the autism spectrum, but to be honest, it doesn't matter. It's a term we use to get Jacob the accommodations he needs in school, not a label to explain who he is

Jodi Picoult

#9. I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

Grace Slick

#10. Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#11. As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .

William A. Dembski

#12. We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

Ethel Waters

#13. The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

Alice Walker

#14. Sure, Gump," he say. "What the hell - we will even get him accommodations in first class.

Winston Groom

#15. There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

Sam Harris

#16. Will we always find faults with our accommodations because of the turmoil in our own hearts?

Oddny Eir

#17. Sleeping accommodations are basically the same. I

Cassia Leo

#18. Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

J. William Fulbright

#19. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Jonathan Edwards

#20. Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

#21. The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Jay Leno

#22. During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

Jean Piaget

#23. We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Bayard Rustin

#24. We are staying in basic accommodation but it doesn't matter to me, it's all about the experience.

Eamon

#25. We have within us enormous reserves of trapped potential. Our natural urges have been so constrained by the accommodations of living that we each have a smoldering volcano just below the surface. To enable this force to erupt in a healthy, open, and positive manner is a momentous act.

Michele Cassou

#26. All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.

Graeme Simsion

#27. What are you doing here? (Jericho)
Do my accommodations offend you? I've grown quite used to them. Though a view of something other than mangled bodies might be nice for a change. (Jaden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. Something else that separates me from society: Super-Positive Perspective! Where normal people would whine about subpar accommodations, I choose to view it as upscale camping.

Tim Dorsey

#29. So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Chris Patten

#30. The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

William Empson

#31. Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Jean Piaget

#32. Since they were visitors, they would have to share living space with those who lived there, and would be given the best accommodations. That was the law of hospitality.

Paulo Coelho

#33. For those that fear being taken advantage of by people working from home or on flexible schedules, I can say my experience is quite the opposite. Employees are so appreciative of these accommodations that they outperform their coworkers and are less likely to be poached by the competition.

Jay Samit

#34. So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

Terence McKenna