Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

Alexander Pope

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Alex Haley

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Debbie Ford

The world mirrors yourself back to you. If you love, nourish, and appreciate yourself internally it will show up in your external life. If you want more love, give more love to yourself. If you want acceptance, accept yourself.

Debbie Ford

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

Drew Barrymore

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Donna Air

I never say never to anything. I don't really think it would be for me, but I never put limitations on myself. Part of getting older is acceptance, though, so I'd like to think I'll age gracefully. But if other women get confi dence from having surgery, then I would never judge.

Doris Lessing

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Dale Carnegie

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

Dale Carnegie

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

E. B. White

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

E. B. White

There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.

Douglas Hofstadter

Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.

David Foster Wallace

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

Dave Brubeck

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

Dan Brown

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Dan Brown

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Daniel Tosh

You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.

Dalton Trumbo

It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.

David Limbaugh

The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.

Doc Severinsen

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

Angela Merkel

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

Andre Gide

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Anais Nin

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Anne Hathaway

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Christopher Reeve

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Amy Carmichael

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

Andrew Solomon

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Anthony Hopkins

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

Alicia Silverstone

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Alice Schwarzer

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Alice Walker

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

Amy Ray

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.