Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Busey

It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

Jim Carrey

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory

Jennifer Fallon

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

Jason Mraz

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Hillary Clinton

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Herbert Marcuse

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

Herbert Hoover

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Evelyn Underhill

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

Esther Hicks

I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

Ernest Hemingway

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Graham Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Harold Wilson

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Holly Lisle

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Hugh Prather

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Hugh Prather

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Hugh Bonneville

I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

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.