Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hamilton Jordan

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

We are willing to accept the truth, even if it is painful.

Mary Lambert

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

We had to step back and re-focus. We had to accept the situation we were in, and not look for somebody else to blame, and then move on. We still had games to play, and the opportunity to compete for a championship.

We will accept nothing less than the right transaction.

We will accept more growth - we must by state mandate.

We will accept entries up until the time of the show. The first 125 registrants will receive a goody bag. We always give prizes to the first 125 entries. Last year the prize was a collapsible cooler. This year the prize will be a Rend Lake Car Show cap.

We've got some guys who are unheralded so they really accept their role and they accept coaching. They know they don't have big names or a big background. You have to give credit to the kids for playing the game the way we want them to play it.

We've known it was coming, and we've prepared for that. You accept that. But obviously, you'd rather go into a break with wins instead of losses. So getting a win like we did tonight was really big.

We have been working closely with the state attorneys general on this issue for more than a year now, and believe that these efforts have allowed us to reach an acceptable agreement that permits us to focus our energies and our resources on rebuilding our company and the Firestone brand,

We have to learn something from today. Everybody?s going to go in different directions right now, because of how they?re going to accept this loss. But it has to bring us closer together.

Kwame Kilpatrick

We have told the federal government that we here in the city of Detroit are willing to step up and accept evacuees from both Louisiana and Mississippi,

We're willing to accept all offers of help and all offers of assistance are welcome.

U.S. forces continue these alarming detentions of working journalists without any acceptable explanation, or anything resembling due process.

Virtually all physicians - even with a small cut in payments - will still accept Medicare patients.

Virtually all of our clients have accepted our recommendations.

James Goss

Usually you have some perspective on things. But what seemed acceptable at the time, what seemed like the norm, now you're judging people by standards that didn't exist at the time. I think it's worth twice what it's trading for, but you won't get credit for it until some of these clouds are lifted.

Douglas Brinkley

Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.

Arlen Specter

Voting in favor would put senators in a better position to oppose later or a vote in opposition would put the president on notice that he better put somebody up who was acceptable to a broad spectrum of senators.

We're really happy that people have accepted us and welcomed us here. Our employees are our family.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

Baz Luhrmann

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

Peer Steinbruck

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.

I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

Mitchell Baker

Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.

Peter Scolari

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.

Glenn Greenwald

There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.'

Carrie Preston

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.

Thom Browne

While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more an effort to find a way to look good in their own individual, but natural way. I think it's a shame that it's become acceptable to wear jeans and a T-shirt to any place and function.

While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it's almost as if the magic number of how much cash you've managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business's true worth.

We need to be honest and open and be able to accept the consequences.

Clem Burke

We have more acceptance and credibility from being away for so long. Our songs have a life of their own. It's like having a career without having a career.