Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucille Clifton

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

Louis L'Amour

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Louis L'Amour

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Michael Korda

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Marianne Williamson

Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.

Marianne Williamson

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

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.

Publilius Syrus

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

As you become more clear about who...

Kelly Clarkson

And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.

Leontyne Price

Who I am is the best I can be.

Leigh Hunt

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Paul Brunton

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Paul Cezanne

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

Government has accepted the responsibility that new power stations were not built in time.

Martin Jacques

Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.

Jason McCoy

Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.

Mary Matalin

For our government to go securely forward, the heads of it need to be separated, and he accepts that as part of the job.

David Hobson

For the corps to persuade people that it is part of the solution and not part of the problem, it will have to change its behavior, ... Continuing the practice of spreading funding across a wide range of projects in the hopes of growing the corps program will not be an acceptable answer. We have to return to a situation where the Corps of Engineers is respected for its professional engineering judgment.

Dick Cavett

For some reason, I was accepted by the rock folk. Maybe they understood that they and I were on the same side of the Richard Nixon question.

Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

There seems to be acceptance that the big three central banks envisage further tightening. The G-10 appears confident about the pace of economic expansion.

There's definitely no secrets. I think it's accepting the role, understanding that it's the opportunity you have to help the team.

Carl Rogers

The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, in which my real feelings are evident; by an acceptance of this other person as a separate person with value in his own right; and by a deep empathic understanding which enables me to see his private world through his eyes.

There is sufficient evidence that results were deliberately manipulated, and Professor Hwang accepts this at some level. We don't think that the data in the 2005 Science study was incorrect because of simple mistakes.

Wayne White

There is such militancy and suspicion within the Sunni Arab community that acceptance (of the election results) on the part of certain leaders would diminish their credibility and, in some cases, place cooperative leaders in very real danger of assassination.

Larry Sabato

At a certain point, you have to accept reality, and it's an impressive reality. It should have been a blow-away. It wasn't just any congressional race - it was a race during Bush's summer of sorrow and it came in a state that was ground zero for '04 and possibly will be for '08.

Helen Alfredsson

As soon as I accepted my captaincy I knew I wanted Marie-Laure to be my vice captain. I am so pleased that she agreed. Marie-Laure is a great friend, she has a huge amount of experience and she will bring a lot to the team.

Ramalinga Raju

As we step into the new fiscal year, we believe that the demand environment will continue to remain buoyant and there is an increasing acceptance in the market towards the global delivery model.