Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Nicole Krauss

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Mary Astell

A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

Martha Stewart

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I think about it at all times of the day, ... It's definitely sunk in. I'm accepting the challenge, I can't wait to get there and I think we're going to be ready.

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

Michael Malone

The chances of the Bush administration accepting a truce would be pretty remote at best.

The first attempts embraced information access and not commerce, ... The next phase was commerce, phones connected to Web sites. Now voice portals are accepting phone calls and retrieving information from Web databases, ... databases that would normally be driving Web sites.

Lisa Unger

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

The idea was then given to Ford and he took a great risk in accepting it and committing money for it.

A lot of lenders are sending out letters stating that they are going to start accepting loans at higher loan limits well ahead of the Fannie Mae announcement.

Malcolm X

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Charles Schumer

All customers, even those who specifically install the Kodak software applications, are presented with the Microsoft application, scanner and camera wizard, meaning additional steps are necessary for those consumers to access the Kodak software, ... Even worse, Windows XP steers consumers electing to process digital pictures to a Microsoft-approved vendor and hinders them from accepting Kodak's digital processing site.

Paul Butcher

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

Simon Williams

The U.K. has been behind the EU but certainly ahead of the U.S. in accepting Iran as it is and looking to support the domestic developments that are occurring at the moment.

Jim Boeheim

It's a matter of accepting what he can do. He needed to be patient. That's a tough thing to do as a player, but this was a game that was made for him.

This is the first program offering assistance to Hurricane Rita evacuees. This is a big thing. We will start accepting applications Feb. 1.

Robert G. Allen

This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in return for substantial long-term growth,

Rick Perry

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Stephen Colbert

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

Yasser Arafat

I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

Will Oldham

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

Katy Perry

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Shirin Ebadi

I have never had a governmental position, and I will never accept such a position.

Saul Alinsky

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Victoria Beckham

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

Stephen Spender

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

Van Morrison

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.