Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

If people are pleased that there is a popular acceptance of anything that came from me, I'm thrilled, you know, and flattered.

Jeff Greenfield

I really have never heard an acceptance speech where 20 years of a guy's life in the U.S. Senate is kissed off in three sentences.

Satoru Iwata

I really don't think that there's going to be a lot of acceptance by current customers of the $60 price tag.

Jack Kornfield

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

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.

Thomas Bangalter

It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.

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.

Madeleine L'Engle

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Lucy Hale

My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

John Fowles

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Fowles

It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

John F. Kennedy

We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.

John F. Kennedy

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

Kate Upton

I want to enjoy life, and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

Paul Lowe

Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.

Marty Nemko

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

Pindar

May God .. let me strive for attainable things.

Rabindranath Tagore

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Peter Medawar

It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.

Peter McWilliams

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Paulo Coelho

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

Quincy Jones

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

Pierre Bayle

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Nathaniel Branden

When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's our purpose to grow as human beings, to look within ourselves, to find and build upon that source of peace and understanding and strength that is our individual self. And then to reach out to others with love and acceptance and patient guidance in the hope of what we may become together.

Jody Williams

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Louise Hay

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

Lou Rawls

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

Lionel Trilling

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Linus Pauling

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.