Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Larry Brown

I'm looking to see who is going to accept roles, do what we ask and be a great teammate.

Scarlett Johansson

I'm from New York so I feel very at home in London. It's like a metropolitan breeding ground for culture, art and diversity. I was very moved by how accepted I was there. There was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.

I'm pretty sure he wants to put the guys in place that he wants, ... So you accept it and move on and go where you're wanted.

Brian Jordan

I'm one of those guys who accepts the challenge of helping others and being a leader.

Garrett Gomez

I'm just happy to be able to participate, much less win two and then accept the Bill Shoemaker Award. It's beyond my wildest dreams.

It looks like they insisted on sending them to us, and we have no choice but to accept them. It shows severe disrespect to us.

Henry Miller

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Henry Miller

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

Henry Miller

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Henry Miller

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Helen Keller

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

Cassandra Clare

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

Robert Thompson

Everybody seems to know Alan Greenspan. I think we accepted him as a smart guy. ... There is something very magical, mystical, almost voodoo-like about what he does.

The board's first thought was, 'well no, balconies do not fit in downtown Wichita. We're not New Orleans and they have not been part of our streetscape.' And I think we arrived at a rather acceptable compromise -- we're going to have some very narrow, 18-inch balconies.

The board of directors is not making a recommendation to shareholders to accept or to reject the offer.