Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Arendt

Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

He's a proxy. If this man would have been called up that day, he would have accepted the assignment in a heartbeat.

He's an unbelievable playmaker. He's just one of those kids who has a knack to make plays. Now he has to be a leader off the field, too, for our defense, and I think he's accepted that role.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

George M. Low is a legendary figure for his vision and his role in developing our nation's space programs. It is a tremendous honor for us to accept this award that bears his name. This award reflects the dedication of a talented team of employees who give it their best every day, working as one team with NASA, to ensure the success of our nation's space exploration programs.

General awareness of the college is at an acceptable level,

George Boole

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Christopher Alexander

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christine Feehan

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

George Orwell

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Jean Cocteau

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

Gene Tierney

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

Frank Gehry

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

Frank Gehry

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

Felix Baumgartner

Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.

Fay Weldon

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Fay Weldon

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

F. H. Bradley

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Evangelos Venizelos

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

I wanted the experience to be the head coach of the track program, so I accepted the offer.

I wanted to get involved in some theater group. I came down and tried out and they accepted me.

I wanted to do it, but they believe it would be in my best interests not to make myself available for the Commonwealth Games and I accept that.

Rodney Crowell

I wanted to dismantle any show-business pretense and take this thing straight as a human being, ... So I said, 'I'm gonna write this, and where I think I'm great, I'm gonna say it, and where I think I'm not, I'm gonna say it. And I'm gonna try to love and accept myself along the way.'

Bill Cosby

Thank you for remembering me. I'm also happy to be accepting this trophy before I become incontinent.

George Gregan

It was a great effort from the guys but we're a team which doesn't accept losses.

I walked up to the customer, and said, 'I think I know what she wants,' ... They bought the rug and he never said another word about me not selling. He was born in America, but was an Armenian man from a different era. He adapted and accepted the idea of a daughter in a non-secretarial position, and he complimented me to everyone.

I've got to grow up and act like a football player. Everything is not going to go the way I want it to go, and I've got to accept that and learn how to deal with it.

Brian Billick

I've got to be responsive to the needs and the passions in the way my players feel like they need to play the game but also make sure there is a very clear line of demarcation as to what is acceptable and what is not.

I'm letting him choose a date in that period between the end of February and the end of March and whatever date he chooses is acceptable to me. The earlier the better.

Mandy Moore

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.