Famous Quotes & Sayings

As a member of the organization, I have to roll with it, accept the change and know that we have to move on,

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.

David Hawkins

No question, they're being tougher, more comprehensive in their audits, ... They're actually auditing transactions, rather than just auditing by interview. They're less tolerant of weaknesses in internal control systems, and not as ready to accept management explanations.

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.

Paul Thurrott

Apple moved to the Intel platform because of the future. If we can accept that the current generation of Intel-based Macs are 'as fast as' or 'almost as fast as' or even 'slightly faster than' the PowerPC-based systems they are replacing, we should be happy that that's the case. Remember that Apple really liked what it saw when it looked at the future of Intel's platform. They saw not just dual core chips, but multi-core chips. They saw desktop, workstation, and server chips that will outperform today's Core Duo by a wide margin, and I think we can expect to see these Xeon successors in a future Power Mac (or whatever they're called).

A real man can see your problems & accept you for them; if he really cared, he would help you to the best of your abilities. A real man would not care how similar or different you are either; if he really cares he will hold you high in both his heart & mind no matter what you are or arent.

Arafat will not accept and cannot accept a final solution and an end of Palestinian claims if it doesn't include a solution to the issues of Jerusalem and refugees.

Terry Taylor

Any stories and photos produced by AP staffers belong to AP. We cannot accept this attempt by the LPGA to put such severe limits on AP's editorial use of its own work, and we can't accept any demand that AP provide free use of its material as a condition for being allowed to cover an event.

The senator does not believe Mississippi or the rest of the nation will accept this.

These members have done great harm to the Olympic ideal. Now the greatest service to the Olympic movement is simply to accept their fate,

The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and you spend money and it is an essential part of your lifestyle, then you shouldn't be ashamed of talking about it. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. And I think you should accept it and be honest and open about it.

The second message is that we cannot accept that international rules are not accepted.

The students came to us ... after reading our letter, saying they understand there have been abuses and they accept that as a problem. They would just like to have an event that celebrates their four years together and the idea of a dinner cruise was agreeable to us.

The success of the banks' legally suspect practices has given them tremendous market power. Merchants have no choice but to accept Visa and MasterCard products on the sellers' terms. Otherwise they lose customers and sales.

The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ethiopia is being restored. Ethiopia does not want anything more beyond reclaiming its invaded land and it will not accept anything less.

Leisel Jones

The testing is something we accept and we don't have a problem doing it because it proves things, doesn't it?

Nick Hanauer

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.

Alafair Burke

I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.

James Jones

I've learned that racism will not be taken as a given. I don't think we should ever accept it.

I wanted to do it, but they believe it would be in my best interests not to make myself available for the Commonwealth Games and I accept that.

Rodney Crowell

I wanted to dismantle any show-business pretense and take this thing straight as a human being, ... So I said, 'I'm gonna write this, and where I think I'm great, I'm gonna say it, and where I think I'm not, I'm gonna say it. And I'm gonna try to love and accept myself along the way.'

A few weeks ago, they had a big meeting. And 78 percent of the people voted not to accept that offer.

The older guys have accepted the young kids and see what they can do. I think that had to happen.

After 300 years of colonial rule, India will not follow the beat of a distant drummer, nor accept a junior partnership to Washington,

Ned Colletti

After 25 years in major league baseball, it's a dream come true to be the general manager of one of the most storied franchises in all of sports. I'd like to thank the Dodgers for putting their trust in my leadership abilities. My goal from this point forward is to accept nothing less than winning a World Championship with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Dennis Rader

A dark side is there, but now I think light is beginning to shine. Hopefully someday God will accept me.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth.

Some facts are so simple that clever people can't accept them

Michael Thomas

Some people wait until the end of the year and accept the $2, $3 finance charge, but we have accounts that are owed in the thousands of dollars, some reaching up to over 20 years. Sometimes, people take the approach that if they don't pay, nothing will happen to them.

Benny Hinn

So we can't accept everything that comes our way, we have to be intelligent as Christians.

So that we can truly admire this wonderful painting we will have to know ourselves first of all, to accept our limits and understand that if we really want to have access to this wonderful painting of the existence of the world of the Logical Coefficient 2 we will have to look inside ourselves, to see first of all the unlimited Universe, to recognise the infinite from which we were conceived and that lies in each of us in order to be granted access to the infinite outside us.

Space is a non-forgiving environment, particularly during EVA. We accept some risks, as we do with every launch, because we know the benefits.

Albert Einstein

Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.