Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Canada

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

Alan Keyes

One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other ... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.

Bill Buford

The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.

There are a lot of ramifications and invasion-of-privacy issues. We basically tell the students what is acceptable and what isn't acceptable, and athletes are the unspoken definition of role models and we expect them to act that way.

Gordon Gee

There are many who say that the entrenched interests -- television, alumni, legislators, among others -- will never truly accept anything less than a continuation of the status quo, ... But that is simply unacceptable. As educators, we have an obligation to try to make things better. I love college sports. However, institutions of higher learning are in danger of being torn apart by the win-at-all-costs culture we have created for ourselves.

There are many paths and they are all valid if they work for the individual, ... All the paths are sacred and all should be accepted in the recovery family.

Ian Hislop

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

David A. Bednar

Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'

Diane Ackerman

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

Douglass North

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

Bat for Lashes

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

Adam Hamilton

I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

Antonio Munoz Molina

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

We have several areas that we accept films from that are not specifically delineated as countries but have been accepted over the years, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Puerto Rico.

We have seen strong customer acceptance of our electroplated wafer bumping technology, including our lead-free bump, as well as wafer probe capability, and we expect to continue to strategically expand these resources.

We have seen spokespeople from three of the four companies quoted as saying they will attend. Let's see if they accept the formal invitations, and we will take it from there. We would certainly like to hear more about the technologies they use over there. Are there cookies that can be used to track dissidents?

This will give direction to the team only to push on or to accept this offer as a tentative agreement on these remaining issues.

Rob Enderle

This will enable the neighborhoods where it is installed to experience next-generation Web applications and programming at acceptable speeds.

This will be questioned; it will be challenged. But in the end, we have to accept that God is working his plan. That must be true, or this whole thing we're living is a big joke.

This was an accident. Everyone has to live with it and accept it and not point fingers. If this is negligence on her part, then 80 percent of mothers and fathers in Richmond better take notice.

This was a group of people who accepted everybody, including Kyle Huff.

Jacob Zuma

There is no reason why there should be any doubt that the principals should accept the agreement.

The party would not accept the nomination if the candidate did not sign the nomination form.

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals, it fits perfectly. But we cannot assume that all evolutionary steps arise from selection, particularly when looking at smaller animals.

To change the world, you need to understand and accept that somethings doesn't change and other things do, your job is to identify which is which acting towards things that do change and ignoring things that don't.

The practice is not to accept remedies submitted after the deadline unless they resolve all concerns in a clear and obvious way and do not require a market evaluation.

There are an additional 200 nursing applicants who meet eligibility requirements, but who cannot be accepted because of program capacity on the Macon campus,

Martti Ahtisaari

There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.

There are all sorts of reasons that they don't care for me and I can accept that. I just want to be able to see my kids regularly. I prayed about it and am glad that the governor said he will at least look into it. I know there are no guarantees, but at least it's something.

There are indications now that Milosevic is ready to accept the conditions that NATO and the international community have put forth to bring this campaign to a suspension, ... ... but we need clarity, we need details, we need implementation and, for now, we will remain cautious.

Joe Johnson

We always said we would support the museum with an acceptable plan and funding level. That's why I'm going back, to oversee its plan for one year.