Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Roberts

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

Carolyn Heilbrun

maturity ... is letting things happen.

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.

Fred Rogers

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

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.

Phil Knight

I believe that continued strong consumer acceptance of our products at retail and the strengthening of our organization will enable us to manage through the challenges in our U.S. footwear business and lay the foundation for another round of growth,

Hugh Hefner

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

Horace

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Horace

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

If it is a removal from office, so be it.

Wayne Dyer

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''

Howard Schultz

I don't think there's a market in the world today for us that rivals the growth and development opportunity, and the early acceptance that we're enjoying throughout the country, that China has,

Robert Sheckley

I am very pleased and perhaps a little surprised also because I don't think one knows the extent of one's own work or the acceptance of it.

I auditioned for ballet, but they called me up after the audition and asked if I'd take an acceptance in modern because they liked to watch me move, and my technique was terrible.

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

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.

By every measure, 2005 was a great year for us and we expect similar performance in 2006. The vision of the company has always been to deliver next-generation technology to solve the critical challenge of managing multi-company, operational processes. The depth of our solution coupled with the broad acceptance we've seen in the market show that we've converted the vision into reality.

Gary Cooper

Higher price points for the blockbuster titles in 2004 and 2005 can condition the video game consumer for the acceptance of broader price increases during the next video game cycle and beyond. We encourage the industry to look longer-term at the potential necessity to raise prices to maintain growth.

Gerry Spence

When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Gregg Easterbrook

... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.