the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should. — Sting Copy Share Image
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them. — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and… — Paul Broca Copy Share Image
The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records.… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good,… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. We shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff. — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can. — Al Davis Copy Share Image
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof. — Priya Sachdev Copy Share Image