Accepted famous quotes

This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.
-- Abbi Glines

#Air #Laughing #Accepted

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Phrases #Speech #Accepted

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Gold #World #Accepted

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Atheism #Christianity #Accepted

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Cocktails #Accepted #Music Is

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
-- Althea Gibson

#Sports #Fields #Accepted

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
-- Anatoly Chubais

#Mean #Experts #Accepted

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.
-- Angie Stone

#Order #Feelings #Accepted

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
-- Anthony Storr

#Originality #Enough #Accepted

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.
-- Arthur Jensen

#Environmental #Belief #Accepted

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Inspirational #Self #Accepted

It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.
-- Ayn Rand

#Acceptance #Men #Accepted

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
-- Ayn Rand

#People #Economics #Accepted

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Gay #Gay Marriage #Accepted

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.
-- Bernhard Schlink

#Want #Sometimes #Accepted

When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going to take us. It is like nothing we have ever experienced. You are accepted in Christ, never rejected by Him.
-- Beth Moore

#Acceptance #Christ #Accepted

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
-- Billy Corgan

#Escaping #Accepted #Existence

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
-- Bindi Irwin

#Needs #Accepting Yourself #Accepted

I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.
-- Bo Sanchez

#Facts #Accepted #Mediocre

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.
-- Callie Khouri

#Television #Like You #Accepted

Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.
-- Cameron Dokey

#Needs #Accepted #Thrive

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
-- Carl Rogers

#People #Accepted #Feels

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.
-- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#Acceptance #Broken #Accepted

Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.
-- Charlie Day

#Underdog #Want #Accepted

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
-- Chris Elliott

#Television #Accepted #Wanted

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.
-- Clement Greenberg

#Sin #Enough #Accepted

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
-- Cybill Shepherd

#Beauty #Accepted #Standing

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Self Worth #Accepted #Process

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
-- David Mitchell

#Victory #Ordinary #Accepted

Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Surrender #Accepted

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.
-- Deanna Raybourn

#Reason #Accepted

Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Choices #Accepted

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Belief #Truth Is #Accepted

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.
-- Dennis Lehane

#Lying #Accepted #Leaks

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
-- Dick Spring

#Government #Accepted #British

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
-- Donny Robinson

#Moving #Goal #Accepted

If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.
-- Duane Michals

#Passion #People #Accepted

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
-- Eddie Van Halen

#Accepted #Bassists

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.
-- Edmund Stoiber

#Accepted #Angela

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
-- Edward Sapir

#Latin #Language #Accepted

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
-- Edward Teller

#Addiction #Accepted #Secrecy

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
-- Edwin Land

#Business #Accepted #Invention

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
-- Ellen Hopkins

#Evil #Accepted #Not Sure

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
-- Erich Segal

#Love #Reason #Accepted

I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.
-- Erland Josephson

#Real #Sweden #Accepted

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
-- Erwin Schrodinger

#Successful #Tests #Accepted

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
-- Ethel Waters

#Stars #Ideas #Accepted

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.
-- Evan Davis

#Behaviour #Cheat #Accepted

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
-- Evelyn Boyd Granville

#Mean #Rise Above #Accepted

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.
-- Fatih Birol

#Needs #Definitions #Accepted

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
-- Ferdinand Mount

#Constitution #Accepted #Symmetrical

I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.
-- Fergie

#Heart #Player #Accepted

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant.
-- Fischer Black

#Tests #Accepted #Ends

no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.
-- Frances G. Wickes

#Self #Order #Accepted

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
-- Francoise Sagan

#Writing #Editors #Accepted

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
-- Gavin Newsom

#Art #California #Accepted

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
-- Gene Tierney

#Accepted #Needed

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.
-- Georg Cantor

#Power #Accepted #Conclusion

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Classic #Accepted #Irritating

There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#Heart #Peaceful #Accepted

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
-- Giacomo Casanova

#Needs #Reason #Accepted

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted
-- Hanif Kureishi

#Accepted

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
-- Harry Houdini

#Magic #Scientist #Accepted

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Stories #Film #Accepted

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do
-- Helen Fielding

#Girl #Accepted #Should

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
-- Holly Lisle

#Accepted

A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.
-- Ibn Rajab

#Deeds #Good Deeds #Accepted

Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'.... 'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Accepted

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
-- Irvin D. Yalom

#May #Helping #Accepted

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written
-- Isaac

#Ideas #Accepted #Poor

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
-- Jack Lynch

#Police #Accepted #Force

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Past #Two #Accepted

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.
-- Jai Rodriguez

#People #Accepted #Accepting

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
-- Jamais Cascio

#Atmosphere #Accepted #Rough

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.
-- James Madison

#May #Constitution #Accepted

someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.
-- Jan Burke

#Arrogance #Accepted #Application

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
-- Jane Roberts

#Self #Illness #Accepted

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart

#Spiritual #Accepted #Spiritual Gifts

But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.
-- Jean Chretien

#Grateful #Quality #Accepted

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
-- Jenna Fischer

#Want #Accepted #Adolescence

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Accepted #Natural #Disillusionment

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
-- Joanne Greenberg

#Reality #Accepted #Penalties

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.
-- Joe Biden

#Secret #Violence #Accepted

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
-- John Drinkwater

#Order #Judgment #Accepted

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.
-- John Shelby Spong

#Accepted #Invitations

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
-- Johnny Vegas

#Las Vegas #My Family #Accepted

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
-- Joseph Conrad

#Accepted #Being Accepted #Understood

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.
-- Joseph Jarman

#Missing You #Important #Accepted

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.
-- Ken Olsen

#Teamwork #Years #Accepted

It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.
-- Kendall Schmidt

#Cancer #Shame #Accepted

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Yesterday #Today #Accepted

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.
-- Khem Veasna

#Men #Action #Accepted

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
-- Lance Loud

#Accepted #Gayness #Shock

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
-- Larry Doby

#Opportunity #Accepted #Situation

It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did.
-- Lauren Miller

#Bridesmaids #Accepted #Exciting

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
-- Lawrence Korb

#Military #Men #Accepted

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.
-- LeCrae

#Needs #Accepted #Made

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
-- Lin Yutang

#Mind #Peace Of Mind #Accepted

I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.
-- Lindsey Stirling

#Loving Yourself #Want #Accepted

It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.
-- Lionel Trilling

#Errors #Metaphor #Accepted