Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Gerrold

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

David Mann

There appears to be an acceptance of a weaker dollar trend even if Europe and Japan are not happy with it. The Americans are probably only too happy to see the dollar depreciate.

There has been a suggestion that the rebuilding of Napier in a modern style pushes New Zealanders into a greater acceptance of modernism than you would find in many other countries, even though we were quite isolated in those days,

Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.

Nicolaus Copernicus

To be sure, heretofore there has been virtually unanimous acceptance of the belief that the middle of the universe is the earth.

Ram Dass

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Ram Dass

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

Ram Dass

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

We would consider something short of a guilty plea in court that would demonstrate an acceptance of responsibility.

We kind of woke up against Hampton. We controlled the whole game. If we play like that, it's hard for any team to beat us.

To get the social acceptance is the difficult and tricky thing.

Carolyn Heilbrun

maturity ... is letting things happen.

Moby

We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

Kevin Cramer

One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.

Neal A. Maxwell

The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

Neal A. Maxwell

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Mary Wortley Montagu

It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

Martha Graham

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Leontyne Price

Who I am is the best I can be.

Publilius Syrus

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Portia de Rossi

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

Nelson Mandela

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

Noam Chomsky

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Glenn Close

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Fred Rogers

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Frank Herbert

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

George Henry Lewes

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

Jean Anouilh

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Oprah Winfrey

As you become more clear about who...