Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marsha Blackburn

Congress, of course, is not bound to accept the president's budget figures, but the House has the sole power to appropriate funds for spending, and it is a duty that should not be ignored.

It's something I can see happening for, at least, another 10-20 years, if my body can accept that.

Ehud Barak

that if the other side agrees to accept the (ideas) as they are, then we too will need to accept them.

Annette Lu

Taiwan ... is not a part of China. We will by no means accept the false peace achieved by embracing China and sacrificing Taiwan.

Tax increases are a dirty word, but the question is if the public would be willing to accept a small surcharge on their taxes to cover the cost of Katrina,

Isabella Rossellini

Taking my clothes off for a film doesn't come naturally to me, but once I had agreed to accept the role I knew I must go through with it.

Scott Skiles

It's concerned me all year, but it's part of who were are. At this point, I've got to accept it and we've got to find other ways to win.

It's clear the Bush administration isn't willing to accept its responsibility.

Amity Gaige

It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

William Empson

. . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be felt deeply, and is the central feeling of tragedy. And anything of value must accept this because it must not prostitute itself; its strength is to be prepared to waste itself, if it does not get the opportunity.

Rahul Dravid

They can be devastating against any bowling on their day. We have to accept that and respect that.

It was hard for them to fully accept me for the first couple of years. On the one hand, they told me, 'Bring everything you got.' On the other, there was a real editing process going on there. They were afraid of what keyboards might bring. They got a little nervous.

Michael Young

It was miserable. I made no secret about that. We have too many good players on this team to accept that. ... I want to be part of a winner. I want to win championships.

Paul Tergat

It was my dream to race against him again. But to start the race and be forced to stop wouldn't make sense. We are human and this is the human body. I have to accept it.

George Gregan

It was a great effort from the guys but we're a team which doesn't accept losses.

I've got to grow up and act like a football player. Everything is not going to go the way I want it to go, and I've got to accept that and learn how to deal with it.

None of the data so far is shocking. We want candidates to accept them, but they are voluntary.

Ralph Goodale

It was agreed among the House leaders that without putting the House through the complication of a vote, and the bells and the time and all of that ... we would just unanimously accept the deeming motion.

Charles Adams

Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you????

It is your life, but you have no full control of it, only thing you can do for infinite happiness in life now and after death is to accept everything as your fault and beg for forgiveness.

It's frustrating how we lost our awareness out there. I don't accept it, but I'd rather let it happen now and not happen at a regional or a national tournament. We're going to see those guys again, and we'll see what happens then.

It's easy to say that some of it is youth, but I don't accept that excuse. They shouldn't be young anymore at this point in the season. We've been tested enough as a team to come away with some of these wins.

We are not going to accept this document... unless there are fundamental changes.

Jeanne Phillips

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

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.

Ice Cube

Snoop is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Dave Wannstedt

As you might imagine, this was not a very easy decision from a personal standpoint, but I believe it is a proper decision at this time for being a professional. Somebody has to accept the responsibility. I am the head coach and that falls on me.

At this stage it is impossible for us to accept anything outside this.

Kim Campbell

The man from the east end of Montreal who has worked all his life on the line should not be forced to accept handouts when the plant closes. He should be given the chance to retrain or to start his own business. He should be given every opportunity to continue to contribute to the community that he probably has spent his life helping to build.

Traditional thinking dictates that most women, children and other vulnerable groups within the family accept physical and emotional violence as a normal part of life. It is not normal. It is a matter of power and a lack of accountability. This Family Response Unit should become a symbol of hope in the community.

This development today means justice and home affairs ministers are willing to accept a legal process that will let all branches of government decide the issue.

You can't have those on the road. I told our kids, we can't accept this. It's not something we should get used to. But there are some positive things.

Jim Nabors

I told the general I don't know if I should accept this -- it's just too much power, ... At this stage of my life, it's almost too much to think about what it could lead to.