Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Diamandis

In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market...and those who were had great difficulty accepting the risks involved,

Steve Waugh

In accepting I hope the award will help the focus on me to be about more than just cricket. If it is meant as a recognition in some way of the other work I've done in the community in Australia and in India then I'm grateful indeed.

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.

John W. Thompson

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

If you truly want to be a donor, talk to your family so that they understand that if that decision is forced that they're accepting of it and understand that there's a gift side associated to it. An incredible gift that can help 50 people.

Gerry Spence

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

He's really down. I think he really feels like he let the team down. He's disappointed in the league's call, but he's accepting of it. ... He'll be on pins and needles tonight, because if the Heat don't win he'll take that very personally.

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.

John Barry

In the financial markets you are paid for accepting risk. There is more reason to take risk now mainly because people who have taken the risk over the past five years have been richly rewarded.

I now know happiness isn't about being in the press, getting good reviews or always being seen as a winner. It's about doing what you enjoy through the highs and lows, accepting what's on your plate and making the most of it...'

Patrick Leahy

I regret that instead of accepting our many previous invitations to work with the Senate and increase the level of consultation and cooperation to help fill judicial vacancies, the White House repeatedly has chosen to continue down its path of trying to politicize the process,

Because it is still open at the moment who will be our main sponsor, we wanted to give the pros a clear signal that we didn't want to stand in the way of their accepting a multi-year offer from another team.

But there have been a lot of myths about how special schools are very special, with more one-to-one and so on, with not a lot of evidence that that is the case. What there is evidence of is that if children with special needs mix with others, it helps to make people in society more accepting of difference.

Bryant brings tremendous experience to the city. His vision and knowledge will provide tangible benefits to our citizens in many ways, We look forward to accepting him to this very important position as city engineer.

Lloyd Carr

They understand where we are and there's nobody that isn't accepting the challenge. That's what trying to win a championship is all about. There are always obstacles in your way and there are always things you can use as an excuse. I like the way they've confronted our situation the way a lot of guys have stepped up.

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.

Lisa Unger

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

Nicole Krauss

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

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.

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.

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.

Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Keith Andrews

Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.

Carolyn Heilbrun

As E.M. Forster so brilliantly put it, 'It is difficult, after accepting six cups of tea, to throw the seventh in the face of your hostess.' Sometimes the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously contemplate getting out, doing the impossible, flinging the conventional tea.

Schumer pressed him very hard on accepting the word 'general' in the context of right to privacy, and he refused to do so. That says something very meaningful about the way in which he thinks about the right to privacy.

Rather than simply accepting the results of our testing and promptly addressing the underlying vulnerabilities, the department and bureaus have, to date, expended considerable time and energy debating our findings, challenging our methodology and impugning the credentials and integrity of our staff and contractors,

Proceeding from this principled position, the Chinese delegation cannot support the Security Council's recommendation to the General Assembly for accepting Tuvalu as a new member state,

Officials should be aware that these connections are going to be seen by some as a conflict, and they can take steps to mitigate it, like not going on these flights and accepting all the other offers.

Jack Straw

Offering to be transparent now is simply saying you are going to be compliant and really accepting you have not been compliant (with IAEA demands) in the past,

No question, I'm embarrassed about it. There's nothing I can do about it now, other than accepting what I've done. We'll learn from it. It was a mistake and it won't happen again.

Robert Gottlieb

After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?