The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
I'd accepted a while ago that there were too many reasons for me to even think about him romantically anymore. Every once… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a… — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit… — Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I think women who are willing to 'have a go' are much more widely accepted now than ever before. I think if… — Mimi Macpherson Copy Share Image
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social… — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
