Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Higgs

In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts.

Robert Henri

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

Tamora Pierce

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

Sylvia Plath

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Ronald Blythe

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Stacy London

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

Stephenie Meyer

Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints.

Thomas Hardy

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Thomas Kuhn

All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.

William Wordsworth

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

William James

A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.

Will Durant

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

Samuel P. Huntington

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

Wietse Venema

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Whoopi Goldberg

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

Ugo Betti

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Rebecca West

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Ryan Murphy

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

Ricky Martin

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Rob Bell

It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

Tullian Tchividjian

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

Tullian Tchividjian

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

Tullian Tchividjian

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

Sarah Dessen

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.

Sarah Dessen

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Roberto Assagioli

The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.

Robert Plant

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Voltaire

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Voltaire

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

William Styron

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.