Famous Quotes & Sayings

If anyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view

If AT&T has a horrible quarter in terms of cash flow then their institutional investors might pressure them to accept the Comcast deal.

Ehud Olmert

If after a reasonable time passes it becomes clear that the PA (Palestinian Authority) is not willing to accept these principles, we will need to begin to act.

If at the end of the day they say 'Mr. Tulloch you have to go' I will accept it with love and grace but until then I won't run and leave the youths. If they find a coach and say 'Mr. Tulloch go' I will move on just the same. It's a challenge and you just have to stand up to it.

I don't want to accept it because it's ridiculous to lose to someone like that. It was all on us. We just got down on ourselves and I stopped trusting her and she stopped trusting me.

Chris Duhon

For us to be .500 and not playing defense the way we need to play, mediocre is the right word. We should not accept being .500 right now. We expect more of ourselves and we should have a better record than we have.

For the second straight week, jobless claims have substantially undershot the consensus, ... Analysts apparently do not want to accept that the flow of extra job losses caused by the events of Sept. 11 is slowing sharply, but that is exactly what the data indicate.

Ruth Kelly

For too long, access to some schools has only been open to those who could afford to buy an expensive house next to a good school, while the rest were told to accept what they'd been given,

Given the way the national board has been operating, it is not surprising that these are the results. We will not accept it. We will challenge it in court.

Given the obvious sensitivities, we could not accept involvement of Indian military on our side for relief operations.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Jamaica Kincaid

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

If you accept cash, and you call it a campaign contribution, but that money is to buy your vote, I don't see the difference.

John Young

If you are going to make progress in aviation and aerospace, you've got to take some risks, and be willing to accept it. There were a lot of things going up and coming down that we didn't know, but we learned when we flew.

Jan C. Ting

If we're willing to accept unlimited immigration in order to keep wages low and corporate profits high, we should just say so and stop paying for all the immigration enforcement window dressing.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

If we wish to maintain peace, then we cannot accept that impunity be provided to these international criminals and drug dealers.

Jalal Talabani

If those who call themselves the Iraqi resistance desired to contact me, I would welcome them. I would not refuse to meet any Iraqi who wants to meet me. But of course that does not mean I will accept what he says.

If the SPD would only finally accept Merkel as chancellor we could have a coalition agreement by late October. We've got to respect the will of the voters.

Khaled Meshaal

If we are sent an invitation, we will accept it.

If we accept this extension, this township is still as far behind the ball as we ever were,

. if we accept the reality that life is difficult, demanding and often painful, then the day-to-day living of it is no longer so onerous. In accepting life as it really is, we transcend it. Or, as they say on Wall Street, The market has already discounted the bad news.

If we accept the permit, we would have to shut down the mine. Why would we want to do that? We can't operate without mining.

If we accept that broadly 500 million people are at risk today, we expect that to increase by about 10% by the middle part of this century.

If we accept federalism, the country will be finished.

If that's going to be the policy of the church as the church seeks to be its best self, then I'm going to accept what the church tells me, ... On the other hand, I would have an awful lot of compassion for men who are holy, celibate, chaste and who are homosexual and have served the church well.

If the documents appear to be legitimate, we accept them.

Abdullah Gul

If the European Union decides not to keep its word, if its own leaders decide to forget their signatures beneath the decisions they've made before the ink has even dried ... if they decide to ignore all this and impose new conditions that Turkey will never accept ... then of course in that case this kind of partnership can never be.

He was a very strict disciplinarian. You learned to accept responsibility from him, and I think he really helped a lot of people in growing up. He helped us mature a little bit along the way.

One of the reasons we established the panel is 13 of us couldn't agree to begin with. So we established an expert panel and I believe we should accept the recommendations and not cherry-pick the parts we like and the parts we don't like.

I was really surprised he didn't take an opportunity to secure his future and accept what I felt was a very fair offer,

Hope Partlow

I was scared to open for Jesse because he has all of these really great female fans that love him. I was scared they wouldn't accept me but when I got on stage, I found just the opposite. They welcomed me with opened arms and I got a really good response from them. I just love touring.

Robert Parker

I was someplace the other day. Too modest. I was winning the prestigious Hale Award, which is given annually in Newport, New Hampshire for anyone who'll go up and accept it. I don't get that many awards, friends. So it was a three-hour drive?

Dick Enberg

I was shocked when I got the call. I still regard myself as being very strong on football, and I think we had a great season. I can't accept that my work is any less than it was in the past. I feel I story-tell as well as anyone. I won't take this as a defeat.