Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrienne Clarkson

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

Pat Hayes

Once we get the public's acceptance on it, we're going to save some money. We've all used a pop machine, it's not that difficult, but people are still having problems with it.

Barbara Jordan

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Janet Leigh

[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

Peter Burleigh

What we need now from the Libyans is not equivocal or conditional statements, but simple straightforward acceptance. We expect their deeds to be the proof of their stated intentions.

bell hooks

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

Kevin Rollins

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

Antonio Gramsci

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Christopher Morley

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Simon Pegg

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Timothy Radcliffe

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Thomas Jefferson

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Mike Yaconelli

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Matthew Henry

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

Lauryn Hill

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

George Santayana

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

Giancarlo Esposito

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Tracy Chapman

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Kitty Kelley

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Dallas Willard

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.