Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

Gabrielle Zevin

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

Freya Stark

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Henry James

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

Helen Clark

It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

John Henrik Clarke

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

Any type of finish would have been acceptable as long as it gives me a win. I don't think I played very well in the whole tournament. I missed eight greens today alone and saving pars proved the key.

Flip Saunders

Any time you take a job where a team won the championship and got within five minutes of winning another, you wonder, how are they going to accept you? But they've been very open to coaching, very open to doing whatever we've asked.

Sheryl Swoopes

She'll probably never accept it. But she's dealing with it.

Mark Johnson

She'll be accepted by Hollywood if she delivers. If she doesn't deliver in a year or two, believe me, it will be yesterday's news.

Snowboarding's relevance has expanded into a much broader audience who is accepting it as a sport, not as a novelty act.

Ice Cube

Snoop is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

Smoking is bad for you. You don't have to take my word for that. Just look a package of cigarettes and see what it says. We don't regard smoking as an acceptable method of delivery for a medicine.

Smokeless tobacco products should not be considered an acceptable substitute for cigarette smoking, especially when relatively harmless medicinal nicotine products are available.

Marcus Aurelius

Socrates gave as his reason for declining an invitation to the court of Perdiccas, "I have no wish to go down to my grave with ignominy;" implying that he would accept no favor which he could not repay

Graham Greene

At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

At the end of the year, he would not allow us to come out flat or accept less than our best, myself included. He holds not only the other players accountable but the coaches, too. He made sure we were all doing our job.

At the root of problems such as drug addiction and breakdown of community is the breakdown of the family, and in particular the breakdown of marriage. For a long time I have tried to get politicians to accept that this problem is no longer an issue that can be shoved into the box marked 'lifestyle choice'; it must be discussed.

At the present time I am trying to win acceptance for a program of support for scientific computing in universities from industry and government.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

Dave Wannstedt

As you might imagine, this was not a very easy decision from a personal standpoint, but I believe it is a proper decision at this time for being a professional. Somebody has to accept the responsibility. I am the head coach and that falls on me.

At this stage it is impossible for us to accept anything outside this.

At this round, China returned to its position of delay and no compromise by insisting on terms for a agreement that were impossible for the U.S. government to accept and that would have been extremely damaging to the U.S. industry and its workers.

Dave Collins

That might be something we might need to see, not as the norm, but certainly as a far more accepted practice in the UK.

That's a steady growth of around 10% a year. And it's a reason for quiet satisfaction. The UK may not have been leading the way on this, and it would have been nice to have moved faster, but gradual acceptance is interesting too.

Ayn Rand

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.