Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Newman

We believe Mr. Campbell is simply ready to take some time out to smell the roses before accepting any new challenges.

Beth Grant

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

Bill Pullman

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

We wanted to develop a plan to make winning a habit instead of accepting losing. In past years we've had some success, but there were stretches where we had a lot of losses and it brought out some negative attitudes.

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.

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.

At this point we are still accepting members. We will open membership to artists once a year in the future.

Andrew Oliver

At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.

Commerce Bank is at the cutting edge of client-centric banking and we are proud to have played a role in that. Banking customers shouldn't have to educate their banks. Instead, other banks should follow Commerce Bank's lead in accepting that responsibility and using industry intelligence to build and maintain customer relationships.

Nicole Krauss

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

Lucille Clifton

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

If DT Telecom or NTT come in with an $80-a-share offer, management might have a tough time not accepting such a high offer price.

Mike Tice

He's not very happy. Would you be? You're in a heated battle to win a starting job. You get told by your head coach in the morning that you're going to be a backup. I thought he played well Friday night, but this gives us the best chance to be successful. As a team player I am sure he is accepting it. I'm certainly sure he doesn't like it.

Craig Conway

I could imagine no price or combination of price and other conditions to recommend accepting the offer to our shareholders,

Mark Foster

I'm trying to just let it go, being more accepting of my bad shots. Today I put the ball in the right areas and took my chances when I got them.

I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.

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.

If you truly want to be a donor, talk to your family so that they understand that if that decision is forced that they're accepting of it and understand that there's a gift side associated to it. An incredible gift that can help 50 people.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

Jim Boeheim

It's a matter of accepting what he can do. He needed to be patient. That's a tough thing to do as a player, but this was a game that was made for him.

It's a way to give back to the community that has been so supportive and so accepting of a displaced New Yorker.

It's going OK. It's a nice, slow learning curve. It's like with anything, you're going to make mistakes here and there. I expect that but I'm not accepting it.

It's more than hitting hard; you have to find what the opponent can and cannot do and exploit that. I see them in the last three or four months as more accepting of my coaching.

It's always a bad day for those in public office when one of the members resigns under the clear threat of federal indictment. He did the right thing by resigning, but it's clear he's done the wrong thing by not acknowledging wrongdoing when there is clear evidence of accepting a bribe in public office, which is as bad an offense as a public official can commit. It reflects on the General Assembly and all public office holders.

It may be confusing to the public that with the right hand we're accepting government money and with the left hand sometimes we're beating up the government.

John Barry

In the financial markets you are paid for accepting risk. There is more reason to take risk now mainly because people who have taken the risk over the past five years have been richly rewarded.

I now know happiness isn't about being in the press, getting good reviews or always being seen as a winner. It's about doing what you enjoy through the highs and lows, accepting what's on your plate and making the most of it...'

In the big city you get a little bit more of the mocking, staring and the 'hey look' stuff, ... Here, it's so small and accepting it didn't faze anybody.

Mikaela Shiffrin

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Peter Diamandis

In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market...and those who were had great difficulty accepting the risks involved,

Steve Waugh

In accepting I hope the award will help the focus on me to be about more than just cricket. If it is meant as a recognition in some way of the other work I've done in the community in Australia and in India then I'm grateful indeed.