Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Air

I never say never to anything. I don't really think it would be for me, but I never put limitations on myself. Part of getting older is acceptance, though, so I'd like to think I'll age gracefully. But if other women get confi dence from having surgery, then I would never judge.

Dorothy Day

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Dalai Lama

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

Doc Severinsen

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

Amy Carmichael

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

Andrew Solomon

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Czeslaw Milosz

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

David Foster Wallace

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

Dave Brubeck

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

Dan Brown

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Dan Brown

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Anthony Hopkins

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

Alicia Silverstone

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Alice Schwarzer

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Alice Walker

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

Anne Lamott

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

Ann Voskamp

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

Albert Ellis

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

Albert Brooks

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

Amanda Hocking

All the stereotypical ‘dude’ geeky things I like are socially acceptable, and all the stereotypical ‘lady’ geeky things I like are frowned upon….

Angela Merkel

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

Andre Gide

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Anais Nin

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Anne Hathaway

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

We need to accept people where they are, not where we want them to be. We need to reach out to the unaffiliated, the inter-married and the assimilated.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

The only acceptable option to us is that they not build there.

The only acceptable resolution in the case would be a complete dismissal.

Tom Daschle

The president and his advisers must accept that continued legal jousting serves no constructive purpose,

The preacher was reminding us of our ABCs. To accept what your situation is, believe that it will be taken care of and know that you will celebrate one day.

The problem is this is so politically incorrect. The public is still dealing with the pre-Roe ethic when it comes to men, that if a man fathers a child, he should accept responsibility.

Suze Orman

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

Sri Chinmoy

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?