Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Nelson

Five fouls is not acceptable at this level,

Arthur Schopenhauer

First it is ridiculed,Second it is violently opposed,-finally it is accepted as self evident

Farmers patience is completely exhausted. They will not accept pre-movement testing unless there is a cull.

FEMA called Wednesday to say they would accept our bid,

Fear is the question. Love is the answer.

Brian Dawkins

There's pressure that starts to rise in the playoffs because you know you can make a mistake that will cause your team to lose the game. You have to have that pressure drive you and accept that pressure.

The response to Toyota's involvement in the Craftsman Truck Series has been very positive, and we look forward to building on that acceptance at the next levels." ()

Jim Wright

There's other ways of doing it other than having your own. It just depends what the state or governing body sets as an acceptable level.

Every coach is biased about his own kid, but I wouldn't trade Kevin for anybody. He accepted not making the Dandy Dozen as a challenge. A lot of people, including some colleges, looked over him because of his height, but his size makes him play harder.

Every circumstance in my life is my fault and my responsability. To accept this as a fact is to take the guiding force of my life away from the influence of others and give that power back to myself.

Gary Blair

Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

Baseball players get booed sometimes, but if you get stressed out about it, you can't perform. In order to grow, you've just got to learn to accept it.

as the result of a clerical error on our part. We have apologised to Boeing, their partner Bell and their advertising agency for this mistake. We accept full responsibility for the error.

As I see it, the most effective way to do this is frankly to accept these historical tales for what they are now known to be - folklore - and treat them in such a fashion that the realistic-minded, sophisticated people of our generation accept them... I sincerely hope that this painting will help reawaken interest in the cherry tree tale and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose.

William Adams

At some stage the fundamentals will become influential again, but while the funds are willing and able to buy commodities, you have to accept that their patronage is the most influential aspect in the market and will remain so until something knocks them from their current thinking.

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.

John Paxson

At some point, I think everybody has to accept the fact we're in this business to get to the playoffs, ... It's important we put expectations on these guys because there hasn't been any real urgency to start the season the last five years.

At that time, no competitive bidding was required. Should there now or in the future be a different determination of the legality of the structure, I will accept full responsibility.

Matisyahu

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

At this point, we feel like all the work and all the comments have been absorbed, and we're finally at a point where we're bringing something that is acceptable to the council and the community.

At this point we are still accepting members. We will open membership to artists once a year in the future.

At this point in time, we don't have any manufacturers who have accepted the challenge of taking on Honda.

At the end of the day, you can't force somebody to accept evolution. We wouldn't want to do that. But hopefully they'll understand science is a very rigorous process, it's a very demanding process, where we test these theories day in and day out, and evolution is one that has held up for 100 years.

Andrew Oliver

At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.

Joseph Rotblat

At this momentous event in my life - the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize - I want to speak as a scientist, but also as a human being.

Communication about money issues is among the biggest issues in the workplace. Women were more likely to accept what's offered. Men will push back.

Commerce Bank is at the cutting edge of client-centric banking and we are proud to have played a role in that. Banking customers shouldn't have to educate their banks. Instead, other banks should follow Commerce Bank's lead in accepting that responsibility and using industry intelligence to build and maintain customer relationships.

Consequently, cohabitation becomes an acceptable halfway relationship, which can be dissolved more easily than a marriage.

didn't accept the rules. I was always ready to challenge and question.

Kelly Smith

Consumers will be able to request information on all ethnic restaurants within, say, a one-mile radius or eight-mile radius of where they're going to be. They could ask what nearby restaurants are open at certain hours that accept MasterCard. One could imagine being able to identify a child-friendly, moderately priced restaurant within five blocks, open now when you have a car full of hungry kids.

Constellation will get access to our data room after they increase their offer to an acceptable level.

Brad Smith

Consistent with our heightened security obligations, we accept responsibility for the past and will focus on living up to this high level of responsibility in the future.

Grover Norquist

Consider that an accepted challenge. He's finished nationally.