Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Severinsen

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

Andrew Solomon

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Anthony Hopkins

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

Alicia Silverstone

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Alice Schwarzer

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Alice Walker

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

Anne Lamott

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

The convergence of standards will happen regardless of the formation of the alliance. But it does show that standards are converging and that their rate of acceptance is increasing.

Alexander McCall Smith

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

Alexander Pope

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Alex Haley

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Debbie Ford

The world mirrors yourself back to you. If you love, nourish, and appreciate yourself internally it will show up in your external life. If you want more love, give more love to yourself. If you want acceptance, accept yourself.

Debbie Ford

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

Simon Van Booy

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

Adrian Rogers

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

Adela Florence Nicolson

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Adam West

One of the first things I look for in a woman I meet is a sense of humor, a sort of light acceptance of the world and the people who live in it.

Abe Fortas

Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

Albert Einstein

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Alfred Russel Wallace

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.

Andre Gide

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Anais Nin

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Anne Hathaway

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Amy Carmichael

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

David Paulson

What we have to do is change our societal acceptance, ... A community will have the level of gang activity that it's willing to tolerate.

Dan Brown

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

Karan Johar

Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

Heather Wilson

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

Tim Roth

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

The past year has seen an accelerating pace of development that signals wide customer acceptance of open source software and Linux into mainstream computing. This agreement is perhaps one of the most significant developments so far. IBM is the gold standard for computing.

A. N. Wilson

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.