Famous Quotes & Sayings

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.

John Paxson

At some point, I think everybody has to accept the fact we're in this business to get to the playoffs, ... It's important we put expectations on these guys because there hasn't been any real urgency to start the season the last five years.

At that time, no competitive bidding was required. Should there now or in the future be a different determination of the legality of the structure, I will accept full responsibility.

Matisyahu

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

At this point, we feel like all the work and all the comments have been absorbed, and we're finally at a point where we're bringing something that is acceptable to the council and the community.

At this point we are still accepting members. We will open membership to artists once a year in the future.

At this point in time, we don't have any manufacturers who have accepted the challenge of taking on Honda.

At the end of the day, you can't force somebody to accept evolution. We wouldn't want to do that. But hopefully they'll understand science is a very rigorous process, it's a very demanding process, where we test these theories day in and day out, and evolution is one that has held up for 100 years.

Andrew Oliver

At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.

Joseph Rotblat

At this momentous event in my life - the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize - I want to speak as a scientist, but also as a human being.

Communication about money issues is among the biggest issues in the workplace. Women were more likely to accept what's offered. Men will push back.

Commerce Bank is at the cutting edge of client-centric banking and we are proud to have played a role in that. Banking customers shouldn't have to educate their banks. Instead, other banks should follow Commerce Bank's lead in accepting that responsibility and using industry intelligence to build and maintain customer relationships.

Consequently, cohabitation becomes an acceptable halfway relationship, which can be dissolved more easily than a marriage.

didn't accept the rules. I was always ready to challenge and question.

Kelly Smith

Consumers will be able to request information on all ethnic restaurants within, say, a one-mile radius or eight-mile radius of where they're going to be. They could ask what nearby restaurants are open at certain hours that accept MasterCard. One could imagine being able to identify a child-friendly, moderately priced restaurant within five blocks, open now when you have a car full of hungry kids.

Constellation will get access to our data room after they increase their offer to an acceptable level.

Brad Smith

Consistent with our heightened security obligations, we accept responsibility for the past and will focus on living up to this high level of responsibility in the future.

Grover Norquist

Consider that an accepted challenge. He's finished nationally.

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

Matt Birk

Don't put this in the paper ... no, wait, go ahead and put it in. Gene Upshaw is a piece of (expletive). Too many guys in the league just accept whatever Gene says. I don't know why no one has called this guy out.

Don't exchange a lot of money ahead of time. In Europe, credit cards are accepted almost everywhere. I was in Iceland recently and they even take credit cards in taxi cabs.

Brian Dawkins

There's pressure that starts to rise in the playoffs because you know you can make a mistake that will cause your team to lose the game. You have to have that pressure drive you and accept that pressure.

The response to Toyota's involvement in the Craftsman Truck Series has been very positive, and we look forward to building on that acceptance at the next levels." ()

Jim Wright

There's other ways of doing it other than having your own. It just depends what the state or governing body sets as an acceptable level.

There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of turnover we used to have.

Foster Friess

There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

There's a general acceptance now that house price growth is a problem.

There's no real practical way to follow that suggestion, ... That's a dodge. It is a failure to accept responsibility for the fundamental fact that his companies have a business model predicated on theft. They need to deal with that fundamental question.

There's no question unemployment is what drives consumer confidence, which in turn drives consumer spending. We have to be realistic and accept the notion that, as we enter the first quarter and December, these sales are going to get a bit weaker. We're still in a recession.

Richard Riley

There's no competition that I know of, but it is an open meeting, and nominations will be accepted on the floor. We assume the existing leadership provided good guidance to the association and will be going forward in the year.

There's no issue that these gentlemen are quite entitled to go about their business, and Ms. Kidman seems able to accept that,

There?s no acceptable circumstance to put a child unprotected in your car, and it?s a terrible shame someone this famous, who could have set an example, did not do so.

There's more to be done here. We are not intimidated and we are not going to accept a backseat to anyone.