Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Camryn Manheim

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

Jaron Lanier

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

Jane Roberts

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Cassandra Clare

It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically.

Caroline Rhea

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

Carolyn Heilbrun

maturity ... is letting things happen.

Kylie Jenner

I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

Glenn Close

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

Fred Rogers

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Frank Herbert

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Frank Herbert

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

George Henry Lewes

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

Jean Anouilh

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

Moby

We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

Kevin Cramer

One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.

Kristin Chenoweth

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Gene Kelly

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Jennifer Armintrout

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Diego Forlan

I chose to accept that fight because of my pride, because of my honor, and because people deserved to see a fighter do his job. If this fight doesn't happen, this is bad for the sport.

I cannot accept these fee increases. This fee-increase program is nothing more than a financing mechanism to build a $13 million clubhouse, which I don't know if the city residents will support.

I cannot accept that the assets of a company can be put beyond the control of its managers.

I cannot accept that anymore, but particularly I cannot accept anymore words and promises of full cooperation that is not arriving.

I can neither understand nor accept that the good intentions of our humanitarian intervention of that era, which saved tens of thousands of lives, are now being questioned,