I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him… — Gennadi Sosonko Copy Share Image
The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part… — Jean Dreze Copy Share Image
Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car,… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life.… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately.… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing… — Paul Butterfield Copy Share Image
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A… — Sune Bergstrom Copy Share Image
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe,… — Daniel Henninger Copy Share Image
There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation… — Derek Barton Copy Share Image
To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort.… — Scott Reed Copy Share Image
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The thing is for me, I've accepted the way I look and I don't think what anybody says is gonna change what… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek'… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour,… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
In America, we've been around for 240 years. We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image