At the street corner, a Conestoga house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a jail. And here, indeed, lived La Méchain, like a vigilant proprietress, ever on the watch, exploiting in person her little population of starving tenants.

— Émile Zola

Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

— Evelyn Waugh

Impossibilitarians are defeated before the battle even begins. The best attitude that accommodates failure is disbelief. You can't do it because you believe you can't! You can do it because you believe you can!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

— Jeffrey Toobin

Some people have just rented your body to live in it for some time and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper

— Israelmore Ayivor

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

— Charles Dickens