Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Anders

This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.

Mark Gottfried

This particular team has made me very proud of them. The reason is, they certainly could have accepted the fact that losing a great player, a proven player for us, a guy that we all knew could get baskets in key points in the game. Lose that guy and the easiest thing to do is build in excuses.

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This might be a good reminder to merchants and individuals, before you accept tender, make sure to look at it to make sure it's legitimate. A lot of times (counterfeit money) has a different feel to it.

Olusegun Obasanjo

This meeting attests to full acceptance of our country back into the Commonwealth and also signifies the endorsement by the association of our progress in democratic governance.

Milos Forman

This means that if 54.5 percent of voters in Montenegro want independence, then we remain in union with Serbia and a minority wins over the majority. This does not seem fair to me, but we fully accept the proposal of the European Union.

Gertrude Stein

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Herman Kahn

Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

James Frey

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Iyanla Vanzant

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Iyanla Vanzant

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Iyanla Vanzant

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Isaac Marion

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

Iris Chang

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Hugh Hefner

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

Horace

Better to accept whatever happens.

Horace

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Horace

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Herbert Marcuse

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

Herbert Hoover

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Evelyn Underhill

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

Esther Hicks

I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

Ernest Hemingway

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Henry Miller

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Henry Miller

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

Henry Miller

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Henry Miller

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Jennifer Lopez

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

Jean Chatzky

Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.

James Agee

The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.