Accommodating Quotes

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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose. — Sun Tzu
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
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
Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh… — Ben Stiller
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Linda Gregerson
Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and… — David Emerald Womeldorff
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse… — Ann Coulter
But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating,… — Julius Evola
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… — Jon Katz
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… — Jeri Ryan
It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. — Adrian Tan
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… — Shiri Appleby
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
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… — Robert Boswell
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors… — Warren Buffett
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… — David Cottrell
Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. — Sylvia Boorstein
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my… — G. Campbell Morgan
There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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