Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Coyle

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.

Billy Bragg

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

will.i.am

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

Andrew Lansley

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Brian Greene

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.

David Weinberger

Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.

Antonin Scalia

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

Robert Axelrod

We're not going to appeal. She was willing to accept the sentence the judge handed down. This was the sentence.

We're not expecting the city to accept it. These are not binding suggestions. The city doesn't have to accept.

Jacques Rogge

We still have issues about doping. Progress has been made, but not to the level where the Olympic family would accept it.

Chris Long

We advise consumers to make sure they use a licensed, reputable escrow service and never blindly accept an escrow service proposed by a buyer. We also recommend that consumers use extreme caution when dealing with buyers or sellers who claim to do business overseas, as this is a high indicator of fraudulent activity.

Tom is not looking to be accepted by any so-called leaders. He's really much more interested in doing what's right for the man on the street.

We are glad we were able to work out acceptable dates for both schools to meet in the future. The people at Arizona State were great friends and wonderful hosts during a difficult time for LSU last year, and we wanted to keep this relationship intact.

We're at the point of whether to accept it, or not, or not to discuss it further,

We're at the acceptable minimums to handle a game.

We recommended it and our membership accepted it, but they weren't very happy with this deal," ()

We're comfortable with what we're offering and we're willing to go more. It's not acceptable on the other side.

Daphne Oz

A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.

Daniella Alonso

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

Dan Millman

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

Cornel West

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

Conan O'Brien

Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna be the new governor of California. During his acceptance speech Arnold said 'I will not let you down.' Unfortunately, at the time Arnold was holding a woman over his head and looking up her dress.

Conan O'Brien

During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'

Conan O'Brien

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

Kemal Dervis

We should reduce hot money inflow. It is not right to say 'there is nothing that can be done'. State should intervene in the markets. We should accept that there are foreign exchange and monetary policy problems.

Gary Bauer

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Andrae Crouch

God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.

Aly Khan

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Adelbert von Chamisso

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Gayle Forman

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

An important skill for all SpaceXers is the ability to accept critical feedback. This is key to anyone's growth and becoming better at what they do.