Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

It's a major milestone. The settlement puts new responsibilities on Microsoft and we accept them. I am personally committed to full compliance. We are committed to being a responsible industry leader.

Tom O'Brien

It looked like it was awful far off. We were fighting for our lives last year just to survive in the Big East with all the things swirling around us. We were just relieved that, as of July 1, it was over and we were definitely accepted into the conference and we look forward to a long relationship being in the ACC.

E. O. Wilson

It'll take Joe a little while to accept that he's not a Bruin anymore, and I can understand that. You tend to think about the team that didn't want you as opposed to the team that did want you. Those feelings are going to be there and we'll help him deal with them.

It's hard to define. A lot of work gets accepted on the gut level.

It's difficult to avoid the park, but we are trying to come up with mutually acceptable solutions.

This is the first program offering assistance to Hurricane Rita evacuees. This is a big thing. We will start accepting applications Feb. 1.

This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people.

This is not a time for pride. Allow yourself to accept help from others to help you get back on your feet. Help can come from many places, such as governmental and nonprofit agencies, friends, family, neighbors, churches, your employer and co-workers, even strangers.

Martin Sheen

This is not an easy moment in our lives, but it's a necessary one. Our hope is that he will accept recovery and be fine.

Chad Jones

This is not acceptable to us and we cannot sit by without speaking out.

This is not acceptable and I intend to correct it.

This is something you need to own and accept about yourself. But to have a less stressful life, you must learn to expand the box and deal with the unfamiliar circumstances that may be thrown your way.

Robert G. Allen

This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in return for substantial long-term growth,

Larry Page

This is the best day of my life. It's better than prom. It's better than anything in high school. It's better than getting accepted into college.

Wendell Johnson

The USSSA has ruled that even if we hold a trail run, it will be accepted as a regional qualifier for the national snowshoe race to be held in Vermont this spring.

Raquel Welch

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

Robert Higgs

In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts.

Robert Henri

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

Rick Perry

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Tamora Pierce

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

Sylvia Plath

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Ronald Blythe

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Stefan Molyneux

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Sophie Swetchine

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Stacy London

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

Stephenie Meyer

Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints.

Stephen Colbert

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

Thomas Hardy

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Thomas Kuhn

All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.

William Wordsworth

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

William James

A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.

Will Durant

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.