Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Linda Lingle

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

Leo Buscaglia

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Joyce Meyer

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

Tom Hooper

Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.

Toby Young

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Sam Farr

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

Sally Field

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Tom Petty

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

Simone de Beauvoir

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simon Sinek

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Simon Sinek

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

Simon Sinek

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Rem Koolhaas

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.

Tim Roth

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Steven Rattner

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Kurt Lewin

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

Neil Postman

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

Marcus Aurelius

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

Thomas a Kempis

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

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.

Joshua L. Liebman

Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.

Joshua L. Liebman

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Otto Rank

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.