Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Van Orman Quine

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

Wietse Venema

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Whoopi Goldberg

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

Ugo Betti

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Rebecca West

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Ryan Murphy

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

Ricky Martin

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Rob Bell

It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

Tullian Tchividjian

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

Tullian Tchividjian

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

Tullian Tchividjian

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

Sarah Dessen

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.

Sarah Dessen

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Roberto Assagioli

The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.

Robert Plant

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Voltaire

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Voltaire

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

William Styron

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

Walter Savage Landor

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Winston Churchill

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Winston Churchill

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Yasser Arafat

I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

Wilma Mankiller

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Will Oldham

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

Will Rogers

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Zachary Quinto

I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.

Zhuangzi

The creature born is the creature dying.

Zhuangzi

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

William Hazlitt

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

William Hazlitt

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.