Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is also very important to note that Mr. Blunt does not accept campaign contributions from Indian gaming interests, so any 'quid pro quo' argument is baseless here.

I think there's a lot of kids out there that love doing different things, but just basically afraid that socially it's not acceptable to love arts or to love music.

Jason Spezza

I think so. The Stanley Cup is our goal. That's what we want to win, and nothing else is acceptable for us.

Just because we cannot accept what's going on in East Timor, that doesn't necessarily mean that we're the ones that charge in there. I think others can probably do that better than we -- the Australians (or) the New Zealanders, for example.

Ken Whisenhunt

Jerome and Duce have taught Willie patience. They've worked with him on how to read blocks. He's been an accepting pupil. But the one thing you can't teach is his speed.

Jen has acclimated so quickly to this school, and her teammates accepted her from the start.

Jerusalem for us is a major issue. We can't accept excluding it from our national elections.

Russell Crowe

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve. He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

Russell Crowe

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve, ... He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

Kyle answers the bell. No matter what I ask of him, he's really willing to accept it.

Larry Kennedy would not have chosen to have ALS - none of us would. But he has accepted his diagnosis with grace and dignity and continued to live by faith.

Charles R. Swindoll

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

Reggie Lee

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

Ray Anderson

The acceptance from the marketplace of what we're doing has been just astounding.

Khaled Meshaal

The alternatives we have for financial aid from some of the Arab and Islamic countries makes the aid from the West redundant for us... If other countries set preconditions for us, we will not accept them.

The Americans have to deliver something on the Ethiopian side to be credible, and that is Ethiopia accepting the border decision.

The American public has accepted legalized gambling as a means to spend their money for entertainment. America is on a gambling binge. The more available and accessible it becomes, the more gambling is acceptable to people.

The answers at present elude me because I am not ready to hear them. An answer given must then be acknowledged, lived, accepted. The acceptance of truth may be harder than the question.

The American Music Awards are always one of television's highest rated awards shows because of the top-tier talent that performs and because of the quickness of the production. We are pleased to accept this remarkable collection of music television to our collection.

That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.

That way customers can determine whether they want to accept the risk that many people associate with secondhand smoke.

that we are insisting on the package deal, and we are not ready to accept anything less than that.

That's the intensity level you have to bring into each game and we were lacking that for whatever reason. We weren't scared going into tonight, not at all. We accepted the challenge of playing the top team in the Pac-10 at their place.

Phil Neville

That's the way we have to play, ... Our fans won't accept anything else. Once we get out on the pitch, the manager and the club demand that way of playing anyway. We need to score goals. If we score four, we need to score five.

James Franklin

That's the way the schedule has panned out so I just have to accept that. I'm looking forward to the New Zealand A tour to Sri Lanka next month and then I'll just concentrate on the domestic summer. I want to stay injury-free for the next six months and perform well, so by the time that first test rolls around against the West Indies I'm right in the frame.

Glenn McGrath

That's the way it goes with cricket. We accept it. England à I'm sure things were similar with them. It's hard to say one team was worse.

I was really grumbling about my game and came out and started fast Saturday and started even faster today and was in the frame of mind to accept it and say, Let's go. Let's get more and keep going.

Pat Quinn

I was proud of how our guys bounced back. It would be easy to accept what was going on. We were up earlier in the game as well and gave it up. We'll just have to find a way to play better.

Francesc Fabregas

I was provoked by Tim Cahill and accept that by the rules, my reaction was a red card offense. I want to apologize to my teammates, and all I can say is that I will learn from this experience.

John Breaux

I think anything that is perceived as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public, ... It's going to have to be out front. It's going to have to be fair.

Penn Jillette

I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie.

Kevin Stallings

I think it was hard for him, initially, during his freshman year and a little his sophomore year, whether it was the intensity or my yelling or whatever. He probably had some trouble adjusting to that. I think we've both worked hard to try and understand the other and accept some differences.

Kevin Kline

I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition of the creative artist trying to reconcile the insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process with living a sane and socially acceptable existence.