Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sanders Peirce

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Mark Helprin

If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

We appreciate the fact that they have accepted coach Callahan's explanation of this gesture. We also recognize that any kind of gesture is not in character either with coach Callahan or our program.

Gretchen Rubin

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

We're not going to put a nuclear power plant where a community does not accept a nuclear power plant.

Mark Cuban

There is no question he has accepted the role and is trying to have as big an impact on every game as he possibly can. As he gets more and more comfortable with it, I think his -- and the team's -- play on offense will continue to improve.

Bill Frist

Until today, I've always regarded my most profound professional responsibility in my professional life the blessing I had to hold in my hands the human heart, recognizing all its glory and all its potential, and then technically seating it into the chest of a dying woman to give her life and a future she would not otherwise have. . . . A few moments ago, my colleagues gave me a responsibility equal to that -- some would even say a heavier one. I accepted that responsibility with a profound sense of humility. They gave me their confidence, their support, their trust -- and elected me to serve as their leader in the United States Senate.

Until the parties have accepted all provisions of the agreement, preparations for NATO military action will continue,

Until such time that (Scientific Games) has done something that precludes it from making a legal bid, we have to accept a legal bid.

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

The Edge

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

Neil Harbisson

The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.

Nick Turse

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

Michael Porter

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

Nathan Parsons

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

Lindsay Lohan

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We believe that it is the right of all member nations to enjoy nuclear fuel and peaceful nuclear technology. We will not accept a scientific apartheid.

We believe that Danaher's proposal is an attempt to coerce Cooper shareholders into accepting an opportunistic bid to acquire Cooper at a low price,

Bud Selig

While I would prefer to resolve this problem directly to the Players Association and jointly implement a much stronger drug-testing policy, one modeled after our program in the minor leagues, I gladly will accept whatever help is offered by Senator McCain to achieve our ultimate goal,

Robert Shaw

Whether or not the U.S. will accept any changes to its current role in managing the Internet remains to be seen, ... Let's just say there's now a lot of momentum to do so.

Mary Doria Russell

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

David Lambert

When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a culture shock. But it was a really interesting time to be there. I didn't entirely realize how different it is from the States. I just accepted it because I was there and my parents needed to be there.

Angeles Mastretta

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

We remain relatively optimistic about the housing market, but we do accept that activity fell sharply in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11,

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

We're going to tie ourselves to his wagon and let him pull us around. He's our leader and he's really matured and accepted that role.

Beth Moore

When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going to take us. It is like nothing we have ever experienced. You are accepted in Christ, never rejected by Him.

Benjamin Tucker

The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.

Joshua Homme

We are all the same in most ways and their is only a few things that make you and I different and you should only accept the way of those things.

Craig Harris

We are all complex and we all have a combination of expectations. On one hand, we want the federal government to make the food supply as safe as possible, but sometimes we're quite happy to accept unsafe food because it's fresher, because it tastes better or because it's part of our ethnic identity. We want to obtain the freedom and autonomy to choose bundles of goods, positives and negatives.

Wilhelm Steinitz

The refutation of a sacrifice frequently consists in its acceptance.

Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults.