Quotes about Accommodation

My parents first rented a tiny apartment on Chapel Street with their black standard poodle, Turbo. When I arrived, they had to move out because the landlord allowed dogs but not babies. They found a place on Edwards Street, where the owner allowed babies but not dogs. Fortunately, I made the cut and Turbo went to live at Grove Lane.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

The reason we in the West do not suffer more persecution is because we have accommodated ourselves too much to the world around us.

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.