Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Helprin

If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

Tom Rath

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

She accepts that the story, which she sold to the newspaper, was an entire fabrication on her part and that she had not had an affair or fling with the claimant.

She knows this is her life. She accepts it. It's almost her mission in life to touch others.

Ramana Maharshi

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

Marquis de Lafayette

If the king refuses the constitution, I shall oppose him; if he accepts it, I shall defend him; and the day on which he gave himself up as my prisoner secured me more fully to his service than if he had promised me half his kingdom.

Taylor Wilson

These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

Ambrose Burnside

The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.

James Earl Jones

I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.

Vivek Wadhwa

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

Dusty Baker

One of the hardest things in this game is a fallen star. When a guy accepts the position that he's in in his career, it makes it easier on a manager and coaches and very beneficial to the guys on the team.

Martin King

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

I am unconvinced that Judge Roberts accepts the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling as settled law,

Stephen Smith

Barnes accepts the legal responsibility. We don't like it, but we don't contest the law.

Caleb Carr

Gideon is unaware of it; he's grown up in it, and accepts the shortcomings until -- it's sort of a typical Everyman situation -- you accept the shortcomings until you get shoved up against an uncomfortable wall by them and have to look at them. And that's what happens to him. It's not a voluntary process.

Fred is a character actor, and I think the audience accepts him more easily in different roles.

Richard Blumenthal

If Boston College accepts an invitation to defect, it can expect immediate action,

Judge Austin accepts responsibility for his conduct. We look forward to this journey to justice.

has some demands and the question is whether anybody accepts those demands.

Here, he jokes with his teammates on the field. He yells encouragement, willingly accepts the spotlight. At times in interviews, his voice is hoarse from all the chatter.

He's a clubhouse leader, great for young players to be around, knows how to play the game, accepts his role willingly and does it as well as any of the other top flight guys that come off benches and play, that you can think of. What's there not to like about this guy?

He's definitely an all-around player; he can do it all. But our team really needed some defense and he has been able to step in and do it and do a good job at it. He's probably a better forward than he is a defenseman -- and you definitely don't get the stats or attention that you would as a forward -- but he's a real team guy and accepts any challenge we give him in the name of the team.

He has a long way to go, but he accepts that and is one to work hard, and he has enough in his physical style of play to be a good risk.

Glenn accepts this and is now looking at how best to shape his squad with the money available.

Julian Casablancas

I guess I'm of two minds about (that). One half accepts it, I'm grateful for anything I can get. And the other half, the motivated part of me wants to have the same thing going here in the United States.

When mainstream science accepts this, we can put them in science classes.

James Burke

We only had a brief time to talk, ... He accepts responsibility for what he did, and is terribly, terribly sorry for what he did. In addition to Casey being hurt, now his parents are being punished for what he did.

Sheldon Whitehouse

I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.

Bill Snyder

Thomas had no intent, nor did he harm anyone. He was wrong in departing from where he was, and he accepts that responsibility. He knows that there are consequences, and he is in the process of responding to those consequences.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Imre Kertesz

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.