Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Landers

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

The kids are starting to accept their roles. They came out defensive-minded first. Their defense dictated the rest of the ball game. They played as a whole and as one group. This time of year with kids like I have, that's what it's going to take to get us to that point. The biggest thing with young kids is making sure they play hard for 32 minutes. That's the key.

The kids are starting to accept their roles and we're playing as a team. Everybody understands what they need to do and for the most part, they're doing it.

The jury was not unanimous on one of the three murders not unanimous of the assaults and did not accept unanimously the charges against Mr. Parker. That's something to be positive about right now.

The jury has spoken and we accept the jury's verdict, ... we are getting our assessments.

The judge told him that it needed to have bipartisan support and be signed by the governor for the court to accept it.

Jim Calhoun

Their big guys stood up and knocked our guys off the block. Our guys took it, accepted it, and weren't really much of a factor.

Ayad Allawi

The Iraqi government accepts this attitude. We met with them, and we welcome their initiative,

The Iranian nation does not accept that achieving nuclear science could be permitted for one country and prohibited for another on baseless grounds,

The iris scan is the most stable technology in terms of near zero per cent for false acceptance rate and less than one per cent false rejection rate.

Simon Williams

The U.K. has been behind the EU but certainly ahead of the U.S. in accepting Iran as it is and looking to support the domestic developments that are occurring at the moment.

Lance Loud

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

Lisa Unger

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

John Updike

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

John Stuart Mill

The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

John Shelby Spong

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 Ralston Saul

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

John Ralston Saul

The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

Thomas a Kempis

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Tara Brach

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Tara Brach

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Tara Brach

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

Tara Brach

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

Suzy Kassem

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

Swami Vivekananda

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Marlon Brando

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Megan McCafferty

And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?

Maurice Strong

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

May Sarton

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.

Craig Biggio

The Fred Hutchinson Award, when you look at the names of the people that are on that, it means a lot. Whether athletes want to accept it or not, you are a role model.