Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.
We are staying in basic accommodation but it doesn't matter to me, it's all about the experience.
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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.
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.
. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we confront issues relating to the needs and wants of others and must continually make accommodations. And in addressing these conflicting interests, the operative norm is - or should be - fairness, a balancing of the interests and needs of other parties, other 'stakeholders.'
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
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.
I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.
Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so
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.
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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.
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.
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