Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Enberg

I was shocked when I got the call. I still regard myself as being very strong on football, and I think we had a great season. I can't accept that my work is any less than it was in the past. I feel I story-tell as well as anyone. I won't take this as a defeat.

Barbara Sher

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

Augusten Burroughs

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

Ayn Rand

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

Ayn Rand

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

Ayn Rand

It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

Ayn Rand

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind...

The public accepted that it would be a 1,200-student school.

We've said we would accept a hard date and get spectrum back to public safety.

We've said pretty consistently we would be willing to accept a responsible form of an individual mandate if it was also paired with a clear employer responsibility. It seems from what we are hearing that both elements are there.

Bryant H. McGill

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Bryant H. McGill

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

Peter Coyote

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.

I am extremely pleased these fine professionals have accepted these important positions. Peter returns to Lyric with impressive new credentials, and Scott has been a valued member of the technical team for many years. The fact that they have worked so well together in the past is an added bonus for Lyric; everyone in the company looks forward to this new collaboration.

I am extremely pleased that Ms. Cleary has accepted this position that is crucial to the future of our world-class fabrication facility at Bull Arm,

J. C. Watts

I am in absolute, full and uninhibited support of Chairman Sensenbrenner in having extensive hearings, on-site hearings and accepting those from other organizations that will conduct their own,

Mahmoud Abbas

I am always optimistic, because at the end we will ultimately reach agreement. But I reaffirm we will not accept a partial agreement,

I believe this offer to be in the best interests of Hearts, its shareholders, staff and supporters and urge shareholders to accept it,

Howard Dean

I believe they do not care what Americans think and they do not accept the legitimacy of our elections and have now, for the fourth time in the fourth state, attempted to do what they can to remove democracy from America.

I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.

I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what we want to do. This in no way obligates us to accept offers.

I believe that the very message of me going up to accept the flag is a powerful statement about our city.

I believe that the measures taken by the Chinese government are not accepted under the WTO rules and our trade treaty with China,

I am unconvinced that Judge Roberts accepts the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling as settled law,

Ibrahim Rugova

I am two times (their) elected leader, I have a right to speak ... and even these days ... the (refugee) camps of Macedonia, Albania accept me, respect me.

Ai Miyazato

I am sorry it happened and accept the ruling.

Melvin Mora

I apologize to Venezuela. They know how much I love my country, but I cannot accept what they proposed to me. I respect the Florida Marlins because they tried to push Miguel Cabrera into third base, but this is not spring training. This is a big competition and you represent your country.

I apologize to the team, to the coaches, the university and the fans for my violation of a team rule. I accept the coach's decision to be suspended from the Pac-10 Tournament. I wish the team well and hope for its success. I'm looking forward to participating in the NCAA Tournament if Arizona is invited.

Chris Patten

Certainly in Europe, I don't think that would be acceptable to our electorates. I think our electorates would much prefer us to say, well, we'll do what we can to ensure that at least on our part the protocol is ratified by the time of the conference on sustainable development in 2002,

CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report,

But there have been a lot of myths about how special schools are very special, with more one-to-one and so on, with not a lot of evidence that that is the case. What there is evidence of is that if children with special needs mix with others, it helps to make people in society more accepting of difference.

Businesses or factories where we cannot restore profitability to an acceptable level will be closed or sold.

Harold Washington

Business as usual will not be accepted by this chief executive of this great city.