Accepting famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
-- Abbi Glines -
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
-- Abe Fortas -
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
I would much rather have you believe in something I don’t agree with than to accept everything blindly.
-- Adil Hussain -
Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
-- Agnes de Mille -
You know Hachi, your life depends only on ourselves. I’m still convinced about this… But I’ve also learned to accept that people… don’t all become as strong, and it made me kinder than before.
-- Ai Yazawa -
It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
-- Alan Keyes -
It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.
-- Alan Rudolph -
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
-- Alan Watts -
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
-- Alastair Campbell -
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
-- Albert Ellis -
The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.
-- Alexi Lalas -
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.
-- Ali MacGraw -
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
-- Alice Walker -
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
-- Amy Lee -
I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.
-- Amy Pascal -
I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.
-- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador -
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
-- Angela Davis -
We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
-- Angela Merkel -
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke.
-- Ann-Margret -
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
-- Anne Holm -
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
-- Anne Tyler -
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.
-- Anuj -
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
-- Aretha Franklin -
I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.
-- Ariel Pink -
I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.
-- Art Buchwald -
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.
-- Arthur Eddington -
We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
What love will make you do All the things that we accept Be the things that we regret
-- Ashanti -
Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
-- Audre Lorde -
What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?
-- Audre Lorde -
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.
-- August Strindberg -
And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
-- B. F. Skinner -
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
-- Bai Ling -
When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
-- Bai Ling -
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
-- Bar Refaeli -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-- Barry Mann -
Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
-- Beatrice Sparks -
Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
-- Beth Ditto -
When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.
-- Bhakti Charu Swami -
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
-- Bill Crawford -
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
-- Bob Barr -
Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.
-- Bob Crosby -
People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
-- Bob Dylan -
The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.
-- Bobby Jones -
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
-- Bodhidharma -
I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
-- Boris Trajkovski -
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
-- Brendan Behan -
Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.
-- Brian Tracy -
Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.
-- Brian Tracy -
The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.
-- Bridget Riley -
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
-- Bronislaw Malinowski -
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
-- Bruce Lee -
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!
-- C. B. Cebulski -
We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest
-- Camille Paglia -
Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide
-- Carl Jung -
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.
-- Carl Rogers -
The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.
-- Carlos Condit -
To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
-- Caroline Rhea -
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
-- Celia Green -
I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
-- Celina Jaitly -
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
-- Charles Duhigg -
I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.
-- Charles Grodin -
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
-- Charles Kennedy -
God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
-- Charles Stanley -
In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.
-- Chester Brown -
Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.
-- Cheyenne Kimball -
Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.
-- Chris Brogan -
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
-- Chris Brogan -
I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.
-- Chris Davis -
Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.
-- Chris Johnson -
The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.
-- Chris Matthews -
Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.
-- Chrissie Wellington -
You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.
-- Christine Feehan