Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can decry this as a crime against literature or accept it as the way of the world, but the fact remains: Selling books is about more than just talent and luck. It's about marketing.

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

You can break down those nine sacks... but you fall into that trap of rationalizing it. You can't rationalize something like that. When something bad like that happens, you have to take your butt-whipping like a man. We accept the fact that we didn't play up to snuff.

Steve Sanders

will talk to them and work with them and next week it will be fixed. Coach B. is not going to accept anything else.

will open the door to a secondary discussion of accepting homosexuality as natural and normal.

Jacques Chirac

will not accept that external conflicts pit French against French on our soil.

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.

I was mostly concerned about her mentally being able to come back and accept that she's not going to be able to step right back into what she was doing before she got injured.

I wasn't interested in avoiding stereotypes or clichs. Because I think that's a fool's errand. You go around and around trying to make that happen. It was a question of accepting or acknowledging these clichs . . . and saying, yes, these are types. But then exploring these types and moving them toward human-hood.

I wasn't for it, they're here, I've accepted it. I don't want them around me anymore. That one time was just about enough.

I wasn't concerned about my career at the end of the game. I was concerned about trying to help my team win. My career never crossed my mind until the final buzzer rang. I guess we just have to accept it and look back and see all the great things that happened this season. I am sure it will take a little while to do that, but when we do, we will be able to look back and smile at the end.

Jennifer Egan

I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.

We have a very good following, our house is easy to find, and people are more accepting of home-based business these days.

Rupert Lowe

We have now received a couple of offers and the indications are another may follow. These have not been accepted or rejected at this stage.

We need to accept people where they are, not where we want them to be. We need to reach out to the unaffiliated, the inter-married and the assimilated.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.