Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donny Osmond

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

Samuel P. Huntington

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.

Hillary Clinton

If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

Elena Anaya

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.

Stephen Fleming

We came here to win the series, and now we can't. But we won't accept anything but a tied series.

James Burke

We only had a brief time to talk, ... He accepts responsibility for what he did, and is terribly, terribly sorry for what he did. In addition to Casey being hurt, now his parents are being punished for what he did.

We only accept 40 percent of applications (for pre-release slots).

We offered it to her in November. Golf Week said she was leaning on accepting it, but I want to hear it from her father.

Julio Franco

We owe ourselves to the fans. Go out there and be embraced. Wave your hand and accept it, because you hit a home run and they're happy for us.

Pete Domenici

We ought to accept it as a major effort on the part of the president and say to the American people that we are willing to work from it,

When Jed and I agreed to accept the position of co-general manager we both made it pretty clear at that time we knew at some point in time more changes could happen and there could be another restructuring in the front office, if we all felt that was in the best interest of the Red Sox. That would mean Theo's return. So we see this as a successful outcome. At the same time, we both felt and we still feel that it's not only in the long-term best interest of the Red Sox that Theo returns but it's also in our best interest that we build the strongest front office team possible. We benefit from that, too.

Meg Wolitzer

When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

While not unprecedented, it takes us into a potentially new era. It's sort of the last bastion in American sports. We haven't been willing to accept it. I'm not sure if that's right or wrong, it's just not been done.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.

Why an arbitrary figure of 30 days? The US Government has long accepted it only takes one day to be exposed to Agent Orange.

Whosoever offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water with devotion; I accept and eat the offering of devotion by the pure-hearted.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

Sete Gibernau

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

Sheldon Whitehouse

I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.

Daniel Tosh

You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.

Dalton Trumbo

It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.

David Limbaugh

The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.

Failure to move now or to signal new determination to (do so) will make these weapons accepted currency,

But Regency has found a site on North McDowell Boulevard (near Corona Road) acceptable to the school district to build a replacement facility.

Peter Mandelson

But my (EU) member states will simply not accept further first moves from the EU which are pocketed without parallel moves by others,

James Baker

Both sides should agree to accept the vote count of all the counties at the statutory deadline,

Dennis Murphy

Both those kids are two kids who really accepted their roles well and at times often sacrificed some scoring to give us what they could on the defensive end. I was really pleased to see them get recognized for their hard work.

Andrew Young

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

Peter Abrahams

Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.

The lusts of this world leads us to fulfill our carnal need to be accepted, but as children of God we are already accepted by a Heavenly Father who is over and above all things.

Michael Owen

I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.

Paul Theroux

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.