Famous Quotes & Sayings

We seek a consensual comprehensive agreement, but we will not be bullied into accepting the overreaching demands currently on the table. We will not capitulate to these demands based on a fear of what may lie ahead. We understand the risks. If our contract is rejected, we will strike.

Daniella Alonso

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

Dan Millman

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

We must be wary of accepting any proposal merely because the case has dragged on for so long or because of the current economic condition of the state treasury and revenue projections.

Finance can only be understood as a gambling game, and gambling games can only be understood as a form of finance. Many people have no trouble accepting the first part: They believe Wall Street is a big casino. When New York introduced off-track betting in 1971, it chose the slogan 'If you're in the stock market, you might find this a better bet,'?

Faith is accepting that you don't know, and trusting that God does.

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.

What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.

We're totally opposed to inserting sexual orientation into textbooks in our schools. This is more than just accepting it, it's forcing our kids to embrace it, almost celebrate it.

We're reiterating what Commissioner Hilsher has already said, ... The attorney general's office has no problem with accepting a donation with no ties attached. I am concerned it has ties, particularly since a private attorney representing one of the entities in the state's case has contacted members of the OSRC. The problem lies in the point of focus of the resolution, which includes a voluntary litter reduction plan by the industry. The OSRC is a state agency. If a state agency condones, ratifies or approves any plan by the poultry industry with regard to litter reduction, it is in direct conflict with the state's case, and as a state agency, the OSRC should take that under advisement.

John Sununu

Why is New Hampshire entitled to pick the next president every four years? The answer is what makes the state so different. In no other place in the country, or perhaps the world, is the distance between the ordinary citizen and the government so short. Ordinary people determine the way our communities are governed. Everybody gets involved directly in accepting a share in the responsibility for what goes on in our towns and in the state. That constant involvement by all of us makes New Hampshire special. It's a great place to live, raise a family and do business in. It's also a great state to make peace in.

Why do they have to be told it is wrong? Their duty is to the people who put them in office. Every candidate or incumbent should make a statement that our relationships with lobbyists will be at arm's length. This practice of accepting gifts has to stop.

We are coming close to accepting the operation and maintenance of Big Blue.

We will continue to communicate with management and seek a negotiated comprehensive agreement rather than accepting their imposed terms.

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.

Caroline Rhea

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

Kylie Jenner

I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

Mitch Daniels

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Publilius Syrus

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

Rachel Joyce

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

Frank Herbert

What you cannot control, you must accept.

I am making it possible for the students who are currently enrolled to finish their degrees next year, but we are not accepting new students.

Officials should be aware that these connections are going to be seen by some as a conflict, and they can take steps to mitigate it, like not going on these flights and accepting all the other offers.

Jack Straw

Offering to be transparent now is simply saying you are going to be compliant and really accepting you have not been compliant (with IAEA demands) in the past,

No question, I'm embarrassed about it. There's nothing I can do about it now, other than accepting what I've done. We'll learn from it. It was a mistake and it won't happen again.

Robert Gottlieb

After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?

George Hamilton

Now, if that's your boyfriend, that's all right, I'm a very accepting person. I'm very understanding.

Ricardo Mayorga

De La Hoya doesn't have the pants to stay in the ring with me. He is going to pay for the mistake of accepting this fight.

Keith Andrews

Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.