Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Diamandis

In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market...and those who were had great difficulty accepting the risks involved,

In every respect it's a good time to buy. Dealers are selling the current model year and they tend to accept less profit on a car in order to move it.

Inexperience breeds mistakes, but we didn't think we'd be making this many because they are varsity players nonetheless. We're better than what we're showing. Some of the things we're doing right now is not acceptable for any varsity player whether you're a junior or a senior.

David Palmer

In airports, shopping malls, convention centers, corporate boardrooms, supermarkets, street corners, dentist offices and hospitals, you can now find practitioners making chair massage as common and acceptable as a haircut.

In 2004, the ball rolled for us, this time it rolled for Nigeria. That is law of the sport, and that's how we should look at it. We accept our defeat in the spirit of fair play.

Charles Fort

In 1859, the thing to do was to accept Darwinism; now many biologists are revolting and trying to conceive of something else.

Steve Waugh

In accepting I hope the award will help the focus on me to be about more than just cricket. If it is meant as a recognition in some way of the other work I've done in the community in Australia and in India then I'm grateful indeed.

I guess we've got to accept some falls or some deficiencies, but we played golf every day at some great golf courses.

Sania Mirza

I guess people just have to accept it. That's how I play. I'm going to maybe have 50 unforced errors one day, but I'm going to also have 50 winners that day.

It has to both meet the functional requirements and be visually acceptable to the grounds building committee and board of trustees ? and come within budget.

It helps a lot to have (Gomez's) support. Back then, I never thought I'd find happiness again, but I've found someone who accepts us and loves us and truly understands.

It helps a lot. That's where the mission starts. Our tradition sets the bar. Knowing that nothing but winning a national championship is accepted really helps us.

I think about it at all times of the day, ... It's definitely sunk in. I'm accepting the challenge, I can't wait to get there and I think we're going to be ready.

Martin King

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Mike Mason

I think nowadays people accept people for what they are. I think it's quite nice to have a bit of gray. It goes back to the old idea of being slightly distinguished.

James Spithill

I just love sport; I love competing. I'm obsessed by it, to be honest. I can accept losing, sure, no question, but it just drives me crazy. Just ask my wife.

I realized then, I think I was set up. They didn't tell me until the last day, and I felt really bad about that. They didn't tell me I needed to play a couple more years. If they had said that, I could have accepted their point.

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

George Ryan

I may not accept all the recommendations, but I'm certainly going to do what I can,

I maybe would have accepted less somewhere else. I think Edmonton knew that. I can always get players. I just felt the pick was better than players.

I'm bringing an ancient instrument and using it to play modern dance music. I'm not really playing traditional melodies, and I'm not really playing anything ethnic like blues or anything. It's kind of future music really. It's not related to anything culturally. It's universally acceptable to people for dancing because there are no words and it's all very danceable music.

Don Ameche

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

John W. Thompson

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

Newt Gingrich

If the president is willing to sign a bill that has those reforms, which everybody agrees intellectually are needed in the long run, no one denies that we have to have some pretty basic reforms as people live longer and baby boomers head towards retirement, if he's willing to work with us, I think that we can get something done, but frankly he can kill that by simply indicating he won't support it, ... It's too difficult to carry reforms of that size against the president, so he has a unique burden of having to decide whether or not he can accept that.

If the PM wants to solve the problem facing the country, he only has to quit. If the PM dissolves the House and there is no political reform, the public will not accept the new government.

Steve Spurrier

If the play goes bad, it was a bad call - even though it might have been a pretty good call. That's just the way it is, and we accept it and move on.

If the people of Zanzibar have been robbed of their choice, we will not accept it.

If the people of Bangladesh give us the responsibility of running the nation, we will accept it.

Sushil Koirala

If the Nepali people desire, NC is ready for constituent assembly. We will accept whatever the people desire.

If she and her husband were to apologize, the suit would be settled and therefore, it would be over. While Director Harkins and Lt. Wilcox will accept an apology, it must be acceptable to them.

Jack Straw

If Saddam Hussein doesn't accept the peaceful path to the disarmament of his weapons of mass destruction set out by the U.N. resolution, then there will have to be military action taken in order to enforce the will of the U.N.,

Herbie Hancock

If people are pleased that there is a popular acceptance of anything that came from me, I'm thrilled, you know, and flattered.

Graham Lowe

If players knowingly accept some form of back-hander, I don't care how good they are, we have to get rid of them. Some strong deterrents have to be put in place, otherwise forget the salary cap.