Famous Quotes & Sayings

You cannot accept it for one purpose and use it for another.

We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that.

We wanted to develop a plan to make winning a habit instead of accepting losing. In past years we've had some success, but there were stretches where we had a lot of losses and it brought out some negative attitudes.

Rafael Marquez

We've had a bit of luck. It's a very acceptable group in which we can do many things.

TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently ""glened"" as soon as its occupant is done ""smellynge,"" the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.

Debbie Ford

To step into reverence for your body, you must pardon yourself for all you have done and not done to care for it. You must bless what works and accept and embrace all you perceive to be wrong.

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

We all are equally responsible for the rates, all four of us - not that that makes rates acceptable to anybody, ... But (insurance regulator) Kevin McCarty has to balance two conflicting areas, affordability and accessibility. If government mandates affordability, suddenly there will be no availability.

David Blunkett

We all accept that there is a compelling need for more effective powers to exclude and remove suspected terrorists from our country,

Chris Coleman

We all make mistakes and I have had referees admit them before. But when you get something wrong that badly I am not sure I could accept it. It was just unbelievable, not even close.

Earl Wilson

We all know it's a high-profile case, ... I don't know Moe Amery from a hole in the ground, so I had no difficulty in accepting the file.

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.

Tonight was a high water mark in his acknowledgment that mistakes have been made and that he has to accept his share of the blame.

Dusty Baker

To me, and he may not like it, but I point to him all the time as the way to be. It's not his personality to accept that, but I single him out, which I don't do that often. I say, 'Hey, this is how you want to go about your business. This is how you want to perform. This is how you want to work on fielding, hitting, bunting, everything.

Graeme Smith

There is a lot of pressure on them. They have been an established team winning everything for so long that people cannot accept that things are not going so well any longer.

Dennis Anderson

Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we've come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.

David Mann

There appears to be an acceptance of a weaker dollar trend even if Europe and Japan are not happy with it. The Americans are probably only too happy to see the dollar depreciate.

James Graham

The opinions about contraceptives have changed with families a lot over the years. I find that mothers are much more accepting these days.

Robert Collier

There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it

the recent high profile of bad behavior among passengers has meant that no airline is prepared to accept this sort of behavior.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

There can be no changes. This is not a holiday gift you can go and exchange. If the city sees fit in its wisdom to accept it, so be it.

The original sin appeared only when man accepted defeat, denying his own Self in favor of the outside one of the world to which he belongs and thus fragmenting the image on his own Destiny, which is composed of the outside world and the Sacred Self in the inside.

There is no reason for us to accept the suspension of our research activities nor to renounce our rights which conform with international rulings.

Gil Garcetti

There is no legal authority for the chief to thumb his nose at us -- and I won't accept it, ... I won't tolerate it.

Gerry Adams

There is no such thing as the Unionists ever having it on their own terms again, because whatever is worked out here has to be on the basis that it is acceptable to all sections of our people.

Christopher Morley

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

There is still much to be done to show that such modules can be made reliably and reproducibly at acceptable manufacturing line speeds and costs.

There could have been guys that went the other way with that. (But) they welcomed me from Day One. They embraced me and accepted me. It was a great group of guys. Looking back on it, you realize how special it was.

Chris Butler

The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. To accept that you are spiritual in essence, that you are an eternal spark of life force, is to open the door on a whole new life. There are many questions now, and there will be many more questions ahead.

The seals were removed in the presence of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who must accept an invitation from a country to be present at such operations.

The scope of the need is so great. Many of the libraries don't have walls. They don't have shelves. They're not in a position to accept books.

The school board will evaluate the facilities needs committee's recommendations. The board has to decide to accept or go lower or if they want to go for a bond.