Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gene Kelly

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Jennifer Armintrout

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Hugh Hefner

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

Horace

Better to accept whatever happens.

Horace

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Horace

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

If it is a removal from office, so be it.

If it is against the interests of our country, we do not accept it. They threatened us with the Security Council as if the council is the end of the world.

If it appears the transfer station accepted a quantity (of asbestos) that is a risk to the public, our enforcement actions will be two-fold. We will ask them to correct the violation by abating the asbestos, which they may already be doing, and there will be a (financial) penalty.

Mark Regev

If it acts outside international norms, if it acts outside accepted international behavior, then it can't be surprised if the international community starts to treat it like a pariah.

Wayne Dyer

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''

If I cried it's probably crocodile tears. It's hard to see, with an extremist piece of legislation like that, how anything acceptable could result.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that

Monta Ellis

If I fought it, it would have been an even bigger deal than it was. You've just got to be able to accept it no matter what happens.

John Payne

If everything is correct, then we will accept the filing,

Ben Bernanke

I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They said, 'This is the Harvard Admissions Department. We'd like to let you know that you're accepted in the freshman class.' And I said, 'Come on, who is this really?'

Carlos Queiroz

I can't accept us playing better at home than away.

I can't accept this match was played - it was irresponsible. We have an injured player in the dressing room and he is an important player.

I can't accept this match was played - it was irresponsible.

Robin Gibb

I can't accept that he's dead. I just imagine he's alive somewhere else. Pretend is the right word. Pretend is where I'm at.

I can't accept that August won't do everything he can to overcome this. He can't give up. I hope he can continue and overcome this horrendous challenge. We are honored and privileged to have him among us.

I can assure you the letter was not related to the contributions he had accepted previously or following that letter. He does not do quid pro quo business.

I categorically refuse to accept anything that Jose says about Mark.

Curtis Sliwa

I can only warn you as a message ... if you choose to do nothing, if you choose to accept the status quo, things will ... get worse.

I cannot imagine it being acceptable for a doctor to tell a woman that she cannot use her arm fully for the rest of her life.

Jerry Lewis

I couldn't fathom little babies without water or food all that time. I find it impossible for my mind to accept men crying and fighting for their lives in front of everyone. Please search your hearts and know that what you do now is for human beings to stay alive.

Brooke Smith

I don't think there's any good feeling about losing. I think that as a team, we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. In a couple of weeks, we can look back at that and be proud of it, but I don't think it makes this loss more acceptable or make it hurt any less.