Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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?

Sherwood Anderson

Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.

Sherwood Anderson

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

Nicolas Chamfort

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Marianne Williamson

Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.

Marianne Williamson

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Merrill Markoe

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

Melody Beattie

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

Michael J. Fox

Acceptance is the key to everything.

Louis L'Amour

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Louis L'Amour

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Michael Korda

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Let Rice mind her own business. Palestinian elections are an internal Palestinian matter. We don't interfere in American elections, and we will not accept American or foreign interference in our elections.

Ibrahim Rugova

Madame Albright put it plainly, ... If the Albanians cannot accept to cooperate, we will isolate them. If Belgrade cannot agree to cooperate, they will be bombed. There was no diplomacy.

Joseph Estrada

Let's leave it to the Senate, I will accept whatever is the verdict of the Senate,

Losing the first period 3-1 was an irritating factor to me. We had some chances to score and there were some things that were out of our control. Those are the factors that we want to fight and we will fight. Everyone in the dressing room is going to fight together. We don?t want to accept mediocrity.

Lord I believe your promises. I receive your provision. I walk in you blessings. I live by your grace. I accept your mercy. I long for your embrace.

Sarah Ferguson

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!

Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through my obedience to God.

Many years ago, I accepted a mission to serve the youth. It all began with the first batch of talented but poor scholars whom we trained for free.

Larry Page

Many companies are under pressure to keep their earnings in line with analysts' forecasts. Therefore, they often accept smaller, predictable earnings rather than larger and less predictable returns. Sergey and I feel this is harmful, and we intend to steer in the opposite direction.

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

Senators, don't be fooled by the president's excuses and spin control, ... The facts and the evidence clearly show that he knew what he was doing was to deceive everyone, including the grand jury. He and his defenders are still in denial. They will not accept the consequence of his repeated and criminal attempts to defeat the judicial process.

Secretary Rice asked him to stay but he felt it was time for new challenges. She reluctantly accepted his resignation but told him to keep his uniform ready.

Dylan Jones

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

So if all that Ms. Greene has done is looked out for her constituents, and said that she's going to cast her vote in a way that is best for them, then there wouldn't be bribery. If, however, if she asked or received from developers or someone else, money or some other tangible property or item that has value that she accepted in exchange for promise to vote or not vote in a serving way, then that would of course be bribery.

So if you were going to give a business presentation in Scandinavia, you would give it to your relationship peer to check it. You start to learn what is going to be accepted and what is not.

She was only going to fly once in her life. The thing that NASA learned most fundamentally from that is we really need to have individuals on board who have accepted the risk associated with space fright and are willing to make that a career.

She was never going to say she couldn't do something. She would never accept defeat.

John Rock

She was confident she was going to have success and she did. One thing we knew - we don't exactly know how much it is going to hurt - there is going to be some amount of pain in the mile and the two-mile. You've got to accept it. It's not exactly the outcome we were looking for, but still it's two all-state performances in one day.