Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Seymour

We?re not going to hold our heads down because it?s a long season. We still have a lot of work to do. We took one on the chin and we accept that. There?s a lot of room for improvement with everybody on the team. It has to start this week.

Kevin Spacey

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.

Portia de Rossi

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

Nelson Mandela

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

Noam Chomsky

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Cassandra Clare

It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically.

Carolyn Heilbrun

maturity ... is letting things happen.

What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

Moby

We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

Kevin Cramer

One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.

Pat Robertson

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization,

P. J. O'Rourke

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

Paul Otellini

I've always believed the best measure of a product's worth is customer acceptance in the marketplace.

Mary Wortley Montagu

It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

Martha Graham

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Kristin Chenoweth

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Mary Cassatt

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

Neal A. Maxwell

The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

Neal A. Maxwell

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Publilius Syrus

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

Publilius Syrus

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Leontyne Price

Who I am is the best I can be.

Leigh Hunt

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Paul Brunton

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Paul Cezanne

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

Oprah Winfrey

As you become more clear about who...

Kelly Clarkson

And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.

Any type of finish would have been acceptable as long as it gives me a win. I don't think I played very well in the whole tournament. I missed eight greens today alone and saving pars proved the key.

Flip Saunders

Any time you take a job where a team won the championship and got within five minutes of winning another, you wonder, how are they going to accept you? But they've been very open to coaching, very open to doing whatever we've asked.

Sheryl Swoopes

She'll probably never accept it. But she's dealing with it.