Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shapiro

With him not accepting arbitration and us having five starters under contract, it definitely takes us out of the Kevin Millwood competition at this point.

Earl Wilson

We all know it's a high-profile case, ... I don't know Moe Amery from a hole in the ground, so I had no difficulty in accepting the file.

James Graham

The opinions about contraceptives have changed with families a lot over the years. I find that mothers are much more accepting these days.

We will be accepting nominations and recommendations to find a new coach who's the best fit for WSU basketball.

Doris Lessing

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Harri Holkeri

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Dalai Lama

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

Christopher Reeve

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Alastair Campbell

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

Albert Camus

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

We have a very good following, our house is easy to find, and people are more accepting of home-based business these days.

Zainab Salbi

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

Sathya Baba

THOSE who deny God, the Supreme Will or the First Cause, can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand; nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all, how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy, manipulating both, the minutest atom and cell and the vastest, most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence, except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?

Rick Perry

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Stephen Spender

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

Stephen Colbert

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

Victoria Beckham

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

John Steinbeck

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Lisa Unger

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

Nicole Krauss

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

Mary Astell

A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

Martha Stewart

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

Lucille Clifton

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

E. P. Thompson

made it clear that they were only accepting monetary contributions and therefore that was our first efforts was city staff in support of it.

Many parents would be upset if their kids used drugs but many are accepting if their kid has been drinking. They consider drinking a beer as a right of passage in high school. I know of students using ecstasy all night and then they drink a beer when they get home and mom or dad smells the beer and thinks it's fine.

Cheryl Richardson

So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits -- I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.

When we started the year, the markets were reticent to buy into either a strong U.S. economy or the Fed raising rates to 5 percent. What has changed is the market's very stubborn resistance to accepting the fact that the dollar has a pretty high carry compared to the rest of the world.

Joe Horn

We're going back and to get the opportunity to support the Saints is a great feeling for me personally. But San Antonio has been a wonderful place to be also, and they have done a hell of a job accepting us and having us here.

Philosophy is concerned with the undermining and questioning of dogmas, whereas religion is all about accepting and supporting them.

But there have been a lot of myths about how special schools are very special, with more one-to-one and so on, with not a lot of evidence that that is the case. What there is evidence of is that if children with special needs mix with others, it helps to make people in society more accepting of difference.

Bryant brings tremendous experience to the city. His vision and knowledge will provide tangible benefits to our citizens in many ways, We look forward to accepting him to this very important position as city engineer.

Poul Anderson

My current project is science fiction, really ambitious I think. But again, it's a matter, to some extent, of what you can do, accepting limitations.