Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have tried every alternative-dispute resolution, including fact-finding. We're trying to find an acceptable resolution because it's obvious we're at an impasse.

Jason Terry

We have tremendous talent coming in off that bench. Guys have accepted their roles and they're just coming out and playing hard and aggressive.

We played only one bad half of basketball in 33 games. As our program has gotten better, our kids have bought into it and accepted the challenge.

We can't accept the principle that Italian laws are not valid, because there are athletes from somewhere in the world who want to be free to take doping substances,

We can't accept the government's condition that we have to accept the result of the coming election.

Richard Carlson

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Marquis de Lafayette

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

Martha Beck

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

Peter Singer

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

Peter Singer

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

Paul Bloom

A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.

Paul Bloom

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.

Paul Auster

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Rod Stewart

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

Reese Witherspoon

Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

Rickey Henderson

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Magic Johnson

I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

Matteo Manassero

I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.

Marilynne Robinson

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

We had obviously hoped the judge would accept our agreement with the government. Dr. Fisk is disappointed the judge didn't adopt that recommendation. On the other hand, he appreciates the fact that the court said a sentence within the guideline range was inappropriate.

Menzies Campbell

We have this curious anomaly where the law in this country has changed in alliance with a treaty which has not yet been accepted by those who we have entered into it with,

Bashar Assad

We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of our territory nor do we accept our sovereignty to be impinged on,

Andrew Strauss

We were suddenly four or five down before we realized that actually this wicket was not my kind of wicket. We should have accepted that a little bit earlier,

We don't know exactly how they were built, presumably people who worked on site were asked to just build them. Sometimes, like in the studios, we just accepted the patina of paint that had accrued over time and just left it as a kind of found surface, which distinguishes and differentiates the rooms.

We didn't start her tonight, but she really accepted the challenge of coming off the bench. She did a great job, and this game will be one that keeps her going the rest of the year.

Nick Hanauer

We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it.

We basically said from day one that if the union doesn't accept this, if there is going to be any attempt to strip down their contract to change the ground rules from what they are used to, and they're not happy with it, then we'll pull our offer off the table at the end of the day,

A. N. Wilson

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

A. R. Ammons

I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

Roxane Gay

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.