Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are towns where this is readily accepted and towns where it isn't. It's important to us that it be accepted. We're not going to build a wind plant where it's not wanted.

John Powell

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

We made an offer to him (Ramirez) and his representatives and they haven't accepted it yet.

Kyle MacLachlan

A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'

Joe Horn

We're going back and to get the opportunity to support the Saints is a great feeling for me personally. But San Antonio has been a wonderful place to be also, and they have done a hell of a job accepting us and having us here.

We're glad that Josh has come forward and taken responsibility for Monday's incident. This is now a personal tragedy, and he will have to accept the full consequences of his actions.

Shelby Foote

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

Robert Reich

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

Alexandra Robbins

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

Isabella Rossellini

It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.

Richard Rogers

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

Robert Jarvik

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

Kevin Mitnick

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.

Mahmoud Abbas

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

We're not doing anything different, but it's being done in a different atmosphere, an environment in which people are acceptable to our message.

Let Rice mind her own business. Palestinian elections are an internal Palestinian matter. We don't interfere in American elections, and we will not accept American or foreign interference in our elections.

Mother Teresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream,realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game,play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, singit. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure,dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!

Kathleen Norris

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Kathleen Norris

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Ibrahim Rugova

make Albanians flee their country or accept the Serb rule and give up their demands.

Ibrahim Rugova

Madame Albright put it plainly, ... If the Albanians cannot accept to cooperate, we will isolate them. If Belgrade cannot agree to cooperate, they will be bombed. There was no diplomacy.

E. P. Thompson

made it clear that they were only accepting monetary contributions and therefore that was our first efforts was city staff in support of it.

Joseph Estrada

Let's leave it to the Senate, I will accept whatever is the verdict of the Senate,

Sherri Shepherd

Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.

Stanley B. Prusiner

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

Mitch Daniels

The process is to stimulate questions of whether we are aiming high enough, ... I want us to accept the idea that acceptable performance should be nothing less than great.

Tariq Ramadan

In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

Tawni O'Dell

I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.

Terry Richardson

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

Tracey Ullman

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

Tom Rath

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

Ted Cruz

If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.