Famous Quotes & Sayings

All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.

Rabindranath Tagore

All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become their own, age after age. All great languages undergo change. Those languages which resist the spirit of change are doomed and will never produce great harvests of thought and literature. When forms become fixed, the spirit either weakly accepts its imprisonment or rebels. All revolutions consists of the "within" fighting against invasion from "without"... All great human movements are related to some great idea.

All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you will see that next level.

Airports and other border points have been notified not to accept these cancelled passports.

John Breaux

Airlines were interested in the bottom line. They want to hire the people to do the security who could do it as cheap as possible. And that's why they gave it to the low bidder, ... It was acceptable because we never had problems with that arrangement. After September 11th everything has dramatically changed.

Eric Hoffer

To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews , and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance.

Eric Hoffer

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Will Adams

The House will not accept an amnesty program and is unlikely to go along with a guest worker program.

Richard Davies

The hope is we can come up with some ideas that would meet the acceptance of people on all sides of the issue.

The Homer Simpson 'Conducting Oneself With Quiet Dignity' award goes to Bruce Dickinson , for not using his acceptance speech as a cheap shot against the Osbournes , but merely thanking his band and fans. Bravo, sir!

The Home Ministry made a few suggestions and these have been accepted by Pakistan.

Steve Jones

The focus of the program is to impact drug, alcohol and tobacco use by our kids. We specifically want to demonstrate to the young kids that you don't have to use to be accepted or to be popular.

You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.

James Anthony Froude

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Jacques Monod

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that eveloution owes its generally progressive cource, its successive conquests, and the impresssion it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

George Gissing

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

Luigi Pirandello

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

M. Scott Peck

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

M. Scott Peck

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

M. Scott Peck

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

Bill Ferguson

You create the experience of love by giving the gift of acceptance and appreciation.

Sidney Crosby

You can't give up. You've got to keep battling to the end. Winning is a habit. You can't accept losing. Losing is a bad habit to accept.

Julian Castro

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

You don't just want a mask image that will give you an acceptable pattern at exact focus and dose. You want the pattern on the wafer to be acceptable over a reasonable range of focus and dose errors and variations in resist.

You got to accept it. When you're winning games, you got to keep doing what's been winning and that was keeping the starting staff there.

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'

Billy Donovan

You look at Al Wednesday night and today, it's two different players. He accepted the responsibility. I respect him so much for that.

Pastor Maldonado

I did some mistakes; I accept that - I always accept my mistakes. For sure, we are looking forward to improve, to deliver my best as always.

Paul Butcher

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

Paul D. Boyer

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.