Famous Quotes & Sayings

I knew they were coming here for training camp. He is my favorite basketball player -- smart, intelligent. And he's a good person. For Kobe to accept my invitation is greatly appreciated.

I maybe would have accepted less somewhere else. I think Edmonton knew that. I can always get players. I just felt the pick was better than players.

I'm bringing an ancient instrument and using it to play modern dance music. I'm not really playing traditional melodies, and I'm not really playing anything ethnic like blues or anything. It's kind of future music really. It's not related to anything culturally. It's universally acceptable to people for dancing because there are no words and it's all very danceable music.

Don Ameche

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

John W. Thompson

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

Newt Gingrich

If the president is willing to sign a bill that has those reforms, which everybody agrees intellectually are needed in the long run, no one denies that we have to have some pretty basic reforms as people live longer and baby boomers head towards retirement, if he's willing to work with us, I think that we can get something done, but frankly he can kill that by simply indicating he won't support it, ... It's too difficult to carry reforms of that size against the president, so he has a unique burden of having to decide whether or not he can accept that.

If the PM wants to solve the problem facing the country, he only has to quit. If the PM dissolves the House and there is no political reform, the public will not accept the new government.

Steve Spurrier

If the play goes bad, it was a bad call - even though it might have been a pretty good call. That's just the way it is, and we accept it and move on.

If the people of Zanzibar have been robbed of their choice, we will not accept it.

If the people of Bangladesh give us the responsibility of running the nation, we will accept it.

Sushil Koirala

If the Nepali people desire, NC is ready for constituent assembly. We will accept whatever the people desire.

If she and her husband were to apologize, the suit would be settled and therefore, it would be over. While Director Harkins and Lt. Wilcox will accept an apology, it must be acceptable to them.

Jack Straw

If Saddam Hussein doesn't accept the peaceful path to the disarmament of his weapons of mass destruction set out by the U.N. resolution, then there will have to be military action taken in order to enforce the will of the U.N.,

Herbie Hancock

If people are pleased that there is a popular acceptance of anything that came from me, I'm thrilled, you know, and flattered.

Graham Lowe

If players knowingly accept some form of back-hander, I don't care how good they are, we have to get rid of them. Some strong deterrents have to be put in place, otherwise forget the salary cap.

I had a defensive and an offensive rotation in the final two minutes, and everybody accepted what they were supposed to do. It's beautiful. It gives us some confidence we haven't been having.

I had a chance to make some plays happen. My teammates have trusted me since the day they accepted me here.

Vince Lombardi

If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.

If we can account for another 3 million shares (who won't tender), then this thing doesn't get done. I am hard-pressed to believe they would obtain those, because anyone who would accept C$18 would probably sell into the bid that is out there right now.

If we are willing to accept a significant share of those 5 billion people, there's no reason to have work-site enforcement. Even after a big legalization program, you can't control illegal immigration without controlling the job market.

If they accept Venezuelan rules, we are willing to work in coordination,

Marc Faber

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

If the U.S. accepts this consensus, the proposal is likely to be adopted. But if the U.S. insists on further amendments, we are likely to be worse off. Countries hostile to human rights protection are keen to introduce amendments that would weaken the new council.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967.

Jason Richardson

I fully understand the seriousness of the implications and I accept the penalty imposed by the commissioner. I'm glad to have these issues addressed and behind me.

Steve House

I fully take on board the comments that ... this should have been public knowledge beforehand. We accept that point.

Al Gore

If you accept the truth of that, then nothing else really matters that much. We have to organize quickly to come up with a coherent and really strong response, and that's what I'm devoting myself to.

Debbie Ford

If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better.

T. S. Eliot

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Edgardo Alfonzo

If you ever play one position, you are more comfortable with either one that you play. I have to wait and see what the situation is. You have to be prepared for anything. You just accept what comes.

E. B. White

If you are not really at peace with what has happened in your life, then you have not truly accepted responsibility for the events themselves, and for your response to them. Any lingering resentment or regret simply means that you still want to lay blame, either at your own door or someone else's.

If your child isn't ready to hear the truth, they simply won't accept it -- or if they're very young, they may truly not even comprehend what you are saying.