Famous Quotes & Sayings

There seems to be acceptance that the big three central banks envisage further tightening. The G-10 appears confident about the pace of economic expansion.

Gene Kelly

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Jennifer Armintrout

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

Jason Mraz

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Hillary Clinton

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Helen Keller

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

Cassandra Clare

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

Kristin Chenoweth

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

If it is a removal from office, so be it.

Wayne Dyer

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''

Steven Pinker

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Sue Monk Kidd

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Robert Browning

I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

John Calvin

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

John B. S. Haldane

I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so.

George Allen

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

Henry James

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

Steven Rattner

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Tom Hooper

Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.

Toby Young

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Marianne Williamson

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Mary Cassatt

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

Molly Sims

I always tell women, "Get in front of a mirror, know your body." Don't think, "OK, I'm going to lose five pounds and I'm going to gain five pounds." Try to find an acceptance in the present and buy things that make you feel good. I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.

Pearl S. Buck

endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

John Stott

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Edward de Bono

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

Edward Albee

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

Edward Albee

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Eckhart Tolle

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.