Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Cassatt

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

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.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Publilius Syrus

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Portia de Rossi

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

Nelson Mandela

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

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.

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.

Dan took the second-most shots on the team last year and I asked him to change his role. He has rode his acceptance to success.

The Merrill Lynch name has...inhibited broader acceptance of our retail products. This new brand is the linchpin of our effort to make our industry-leading products and services available to an even broader range of advisers and investors.

The issue is whether a collection of server appliances performing the same functions as one multi-purpose server can be administered as one computer -- inputting user names only once, managing the network from one management console, etc. Until that happens, it won't reach a high level of acceptance because of administrative costs.

Their acceptance speeches are often proof of what lousy actors they are. They're often thanking people we know they sparred with all over the place.

Jim Boeheim

I'm going to be very nervous, ... You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

It's still early in the quarter, ... Obviously acceptance of Acrobat will play a big part in terms of how high the company's growth will be. But as we've demonstrated over the last eight to 10 quarters, we're a company that knows how to manage our business. ... We'll see what happens.

The biggest challenge in embracing a new culture is letting go of my previous values and welcoming new ones. Acceptance of another culture involves curiosity and taking risks.

It's a bitter pill to swallow. It's like a grieving process. First, there's feelings of anger and denial, and eventually, some pilots may reach that point of acceptance that this is a necessary sacrifice.

Henry Clay

The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind. Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I feel to be true. I trust in the atonement of the Savior of mercy, as the ground of my acceptance and of my hope of salvation.

It's funny. We make it look easy, but it isn't. You can tell it has earned the respect by the kind of films we're getting and the kind of participation we're getting. To me, that's part of the acceptance and confidence in our festival.

Ralph Merkle

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Shana Alexander

In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

Serena Williams

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

Michael Polanyi

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Learned

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Sebastian Junger

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

Noam Chomsky

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Pat Robertson

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization,

P. J. O'Rourke

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

Ted Nelson

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.