Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Nilsson

I was advised to have a manager so that year I had one. He suggested I accept the part. So I just went on and did what they told me. It was awful! (on his appearance on "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

It is something that we concur with. We don't accept that it is a rite of passage that underage students should be out there drinking.

He resigned for personal and family reasons. We accepted his resignation, and we've asked Coach Laura Romo to take over and complete the season.

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

Carrie Vaughn

Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.

Robin Cook

has undertaken to consider how it is going to accept international obligations in that regard.

Hawaii's overdependence on imported oil is not acceptable and we need to address it with something more than short-term policy of price controls.

Gerry Adams

Having been in America as recently as November, there will be some people clearly who support the peace process, who support Sinn Fein, who support the Irish cause, who will not agree with me going to Cuba, but I think they will accept and understand it.

Guys felt bad for him. Guys were sad. He recruited a lot of these guys here. He's a good guy, a good coach and he taught us a lot. But that's the business part of it and you have to accept it.

Gustavo and his family were made aware by the physicians caring for him that the cancer he was battling might leave him wheelchair bound. Gustavo quite simply refused to accept that possibility.

John Woo

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

Having opportunities like this one at the Science Center to educate both students and parents about hydrogen and hybrid technologies is an important part of the effort to gain acceptance in the marketplace and bring future technologies that will conserve natural resources to the public. We welcome the people of Detroit to this wonderful event with its great insights into the future of energy and transportation.

He sabotaged the Mitchell report instead of accepting it when he said that he will continue building settlements. So what does the Mitchell report mean? Sharon wants to continue building settlements; therefore there will be no peace. Therefore if the occupation continues and the Israel army continues raiding Palestinian cities and people. So what does it mean when he accepts Mitchell report?

He's a clubhouse leader, great for young players to be around, knows how to play the game, accepts his role willingly and does it as well as any of the other top flight guys that come off benches and play, that you can think of. What's there not to like about this guy?

He's accepted it got a new one in.

He's a fiery guy, and players are feeding off that. Joe is a straight shooter. When you're doing something well, he'll tell you. If you're not, he's not worried about hurting your feelings. He coaches with a lot of positive reinforcement, and guys accept that even more.

Her mother made her go because her brother, who was stationed in Paris, always complained that there were not any nice girls to dance with. It was unusual, but he proposed to her that night. She accepted two months later.

Here you have a company that's just come out and now they're making it sound like we're going to force you accept whatever standard we put up. The only thing that's gonna win is what's best.

Going forward, I think there's little incentive for companies to create new IDEs, and even for many companies with proprietary IDEs to continue developing them in the face of what's becoming increasingly and more widely accepted as a 'universal' IDE for non-Microsoft environments.

John Wycliffe

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

Andre Miller

He's been preaching the same thing all year. I know he's frustrated as far as what's going on with the team. We, as players, have to be able to accept that and correct it.

He's definitely been playing a lot smarter. He's not trying to make every single play. It's a credit to him understanding and accepting his role on the team. He puts up wins for us when he plays smart like that.

He's definitely an all-around player; he can do it all. But our team really needed some defense and he has been able to step in and do it and do a good job at it. He's probably a better forward than he is a defenseman -- and you definitely don't get the stats or attention that you would as a forward -- but he's a real team guy and accepts any challenge we give him in the name of the team.

He shouldn't be even contemplating accepting employment for anything with somebody who's got an application before the board.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end.

His money hasn't come from the 22nd District. His Democratic values aren't accepted by the 22nd and neither will he.

Evan Smith

His strengths, I think, begin with his independence. He's independent of everything and of everybody. And sometimes he's independent of his own brain. His mouth is independent of his brain. But I think the fact that he's willing to take on the establishment, however he defines it on a given day. Republicans, Democrats, you know people in power. He has tapped into a dissatisfaction with the accepted order.

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied. --Salder Bupp

Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that superior form of friendship that is given this time a true eternal look, of comprehension, of acceptance of the self sacrifice for friendship, understanding and complementarity. Holiness occurs when the two souls involved in this phenomenon becomes complementary, become one. When those two become one, when the unity can no longer be destroyed, then love acquires the meaning of holiness. Holiness is piety and faith, is fulfilment and self sacrifice, because holiness requires all of this. Faith is a characteristic of the holiness and this is why it is blind to many of the reasons in every day life

If anyone wants to look at the quantum leap at IBM, they should look at profit margins. Investors have to be savvy enough to accept the fact that sometimes smaller is better, but that's not the mentality on Wall Street. That may be why IBM is not getting the credit they deserve.

If anyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view

If any of us had accepted $50,000 to keep him out of prison, why would we have, in open court, asked the judge to sentence him to prison?

Bryan Robson

If an offer comes in that's acceptable to the club and to me as manager then we'll have to look at that, but at the moment we haven't had any bids for Rob.