Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same

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." ()

There's a general acceptance now that house price growth is a problem.

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.

Although the transition to a paper/electronic licensing model is negatively impacting revenues in the short term, we believe the acceptance of this program by our channel partners will ultimately have a long-term positive impact on our revenue growth.

Mark Twain

. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . .

This milestone is a reflection of investors' increasing acceptance of the fundamental benefits of asset allocation. By providing seven distinct allocation funds, each with its own risk level and target allocation across various asset classes, we can help advisors build quality solutions based on their clients' financial goals and risk tolerance.

Olusegun Obasanjo

This meeting attests to full acceptance of our country back into the Commonwealth and also signifies the endorsement by the association of our progress in democratic governance.

It's a tradition that continues, and yet we have opposition from groups that think that animals should have equal rights to human beings, and that's probably the biggest threat we have. Other than that, I think there is general acceptance that we need to have wildlife, we need to have outdoor recreation of all kinds.

Gertrude Stein

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Herman Kahn

Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.

Esther Hicks

I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

Ernest Hemingway

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Henry Miller

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Henry Miller

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

Henry Miller

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Henry Miller

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Helen Keller

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

Cassandra Clare

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

Iyanla Vanzant

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Iyanla Vanzant

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Iyanla Vanzant

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Isaac Marion

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

Iris Chang

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Jennifer Lopez

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

James Agee

The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.

James A. Baldwin

To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] . . . the second . . . that one must never, in one's life, accept . . . injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.