Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley MacLaine

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Shakti Gawain

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

Shakti Gawain

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Shakti Gawain

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

Steven Pinker

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Sue Monk Kidd

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Robert Browning

I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

Sydney J. Harris

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

Sydney J. Harris

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

Joss Whedon

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

Koichi Tanaka

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

Kofi Annan

If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage

Katy Perry

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Lin Yutang

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Lena Horne

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

Pat Conroy

Due to strong consumer acceptance of new products, growth for TV and appliance retailers in 2005 was the healthiest of any home furnishings sector. Now that the tax refund cycle is in full swing, retailers in this segment might be well served to monitor inventory levels more efficiently to be sure that the supply is keeping up with demand.

Fear is the question. Love is the answer.

The response to Toyota's involvement in the Craftsman Truck Series has been very positive, and we look forward to building on that acceptance at the next levels." ()

Joseph Rotblat

At this momentous event in my life - the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize - I want to speak as a scientist, but also as a human being.

Jim Chapman

Crusoe-based systems have gained great acceptance and penetration into the Japanese and Asia/Pacific markets in less than a year, and many of these units are also coming to the United States and Europe.

This will start to show up on the radar screen in 2006. The more different pieces we add to these Swiss Army phones, the easier it is to get user acceptance for the next application. And especially around next Christmas, the convenience of shopping on a computer or a cell phone will beat the mall hands down.

There have been a lot of morally ambiguous male characters finding acceptance on TV, but we haven't seen that with female characters.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

We're very pleased to have IBM as a major sponsor, ... The acceptance of the OSGi Service Platform has exploded over the last year, with framework developers, device manufacturers, and service providers releasing OSGi enabled products and services. IBM has made significant contributions to the success of the OSGi Alliance.

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

We kind of woke up against Hampton. We controlled the whole game. If we play like that, it's hard for any team to beat us.

To get the social acceptance is the difficult and tricky thing.

David Mann

There appears to be an acceptance of a weaker dollar trend even if Europe and Japan are not happy with it. The Americans are probably only too happy to see the dollar depreciate.

We were playing well, but right now are pretty disjointed. During the Christmas break, we only had three kids who were at all the practices. Others missed for a whole bunch of reasons, so it's no wonder things were disjointed.

We expect nothing less than a complete interim agreement including Belgrade's acceptance of a NATO-led force, ... wake up and smell the coffee.