Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Miller

The word adult is misleading. It's a word used to describe one who is legally responsible for his or her actions. That's it. It doesn't in anyway confer or guarantee that a person, while gladly accepting the perks afforded adults, will accept any responsibility.

Glenn Greenwald

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed the miracle of our Constitution is not something that happens in every generation, but every generation in its turn must accept the responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution and bearing true faith and allegiance to it,

What causes it . . . to kick 90 goals in five weeks and play with a real spirit and intensity, to what we did today? The only thing that's changed is a state of mind. I can't for the life of me understand, or accept why our players, how hard everyone's worked as a group, to put in an effort like that is abysmal.

Jim Craig

We spent a lot of time talking to shareholders and other stakeholders. We concluded that an increased offer on terms acceptable to Macquarie and its investors is unlikely to be acceptable to LSE shareholders.

Throws had solid performances. The way everyone performed this weekend is a really good indication that they will accept nothing less than big performances.

Monica Lewinsky

took to the Senate floor to denounce the president's conduct as immoral and harmful because 'it sends a message of what is acceptable behavior to the larger American family.'

Richard Simmons

We trust the Lukens board of directors will recognize its fiduciary duties and accept our clearly superior offer.

We just want to be consistent. We can accept a loss if we get beaten by a better team, but we've been giving away too many games, especially in the region.

We were playing well, but right now are pretty disjointed. During the Christmas break, we only had three kids who were at all the practices. Others missed for a whole bunch of reasons, so it's no wonder things were disjointed.

John Hurt

What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Protestant? It's all the same if you accept it. Much of our morality is based on things completely outmoded. But people are wonderful. There's no harm in them, they're not the problem. It's governments and politics that make wars and do stupid things, and they should be attended to. There's no security in this life.

We lost both of our point guards at tone time, and that will hurt any team. We're still supposed to go out there and play hard. KB (Kevin Burleson) did a great job for being just thrown out to the wolves, and we have another one tomorrow. We're not down on this loss. We'll take it, but we won't accept it. We've got a game tomorrow and we can possibly win that one.

James Baker

We will then withdraw our lawsuit, and we both agree to accept the results of the overseas ballots, ... That what's best for the country, that is what's reasonable.

Abdur Razzak

We will stop all street actions if the government accepts our demands by that time.

John Jenkins

We will shelter and feed the families three meals a day. We will accept up to eight people per family unit.

We had the worst possible result in terms of the number of medals and we humbly accept it. I apologize to people in Japan for failing to achieve the goal of winning five medals.

We had supply problems throughout 2005, worsening an already difficult situation. At the same time, terms and conditions to secure more silicon were aggressive and not acceptable to Shell. The silicon dependence of crystalline will remain a challenge to the industry and as such Shell has decided to focus on next-generation technologies.

We will not air Howard Stern on Clear Channel stations until we are assured that his show will conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting,

We will not accept zero in the first year.

We will not accept this, and the world will not accept it.

We will not accept that Iraq's identity is Islamic,

Pat Buchanan

we will not accept one-sided trade deals with Beijing, where we buy 40 percent of their exports and they buy 1 percent of ours.

We will not accept any division of the West Bank or any continuation of the occupation. (With this decision) Israel is wrecking the very idea of peace.

Bob Crow

The private sector is making millions each week out of its contracts on the Tube. Yet it is not only failing to deliver promised improvements but has also demonstrably failed to maintain a crucial safety system to acceptable standards.

The privacy feature can't degrade the user experience, it has to be invisible. And if you are promising 100 percent privacy protection, you have to deliver because consumers aren't going to accept anything less.

The public seems to be willing to accept sales taxes if developers have paid money.

We typically get in touch with the local bar association to get the work out that a vacancy is available and accept an open application process.

We turn real-live, flesh-and-blood women into baby-making machines who are supposed to give us their products and go away. Well, that's not acceptable on a human level and not acceptable on a practical level.

Michael Arad

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

Sung Kang

When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right?

John Edwards

We do not have to live in an America that accepts poverty as a fact of life or chooses to ignore it.

We do not have to agree with them but have to accept that they have the right to exist.

Andrew Johnson

We are certainly gratified by the Board of Supervisors' vote to accept the settlement agreement we proposed. We have said that this represents a true win-win for Comcast and the residents of San Francisco. And we believe the deal is exactly that.