Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Howard Schultz

We want to stay here. We love this city. We raised our kids here. We built our businesses here and we're being forced to accept a set of circumstances that are not acceptable. We can't continue to lose this kind of money.

Chogyam Trungpa

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Jacob Artist

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Djuna Barnes

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Diane Wakoski

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Dianna Agron

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

John Warner

We want them to document the kind of innovation activities that can grow up around them.

Steve Mitchell

We know we have to work hard to keep earning that support so we will be stepping up our activities in the local communities and our communications efforts in the months ahead.

Suzanne Murphy

We know how passionate the Harry Potter fans are and we wanted to give them something new and exciting to expand their reading experience. While old fans will love the online activities and interactive features, readers new to the series can be introduced into the magical world of Harry Potter.

Lisa Graves

We applaud those lawmakers, from both sides of the aisle, who have demanded the truth from the government. The rule of law has been broken, and Congress and the public have a right to know. Effective and public oversight can be done without compromising state secrets. The administration must stop using national security as a blanket reason to keep their illegal activities hidden in the shadows.

Don Pierson

We are poised for a strong economic recovery. New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in America. Federal and state activities are in place to design, develop, construct, and enhance protection from flooding. We have withstood major storms before, and will appropriately address the infrastructure so that this type of devastation never occurs again.

David Houghton

We are pleased to partner with The Map Network on these innovative online and print maps for Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit. They are essential for attendees, media and staff planning for and navigating the event through the week, but they also offer an entertaining virtual tour for those wanting to see all the exciting activities in the city during the Super Bowl.

Matt Mitchell

We believe that the recreational activities are more than enough to keep folks busy and in tune with eco-tourism. When you get back to your cabin, it really feels like a vacation getaway. In the evening, just sitting on the porch and listening to the sounds is wonderful.

Gretchen Rubin

If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run.

Heinrich Rohrer

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.

Aimee Teegarden

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

Donald Tusk

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

John Clarke

If we see to it that wages conform to the final productivity of social labor, we should see to it that trusts do not lower that standard.

Jerry Spinelli

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Tom Nalen

He's a great player. Any team would be happy to have him. I think he'd do well here. With this locker room, I think he would conform to our standards and fit in well here.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Adam Lambert

Conforming is not cool.

Rebel Wilson

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Ariel Winter

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Alan Moore

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

David Allen

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

Buddy Rice

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Jeffrey Skilling

The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.

William Shakespeare

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

Love reasons without reason.

Pierre Pettigrew

They did everything they could to make her renounce her position,

Simone Weil

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Tracy Chapman

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Daniel Goleman

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Mike Wallace

All I'm armed with is research.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Carlos Slepoy

For now, we're in a suspension of the extradition request,