One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal.… — Harmon Killebrew Copy Share Image
China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog'… — Burn Gorman Copy Share Image
However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish… — Lucille Clifton 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
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
When you're at peace with yourself, you'll have no cause to hate someone. When you've accepted yourself for who you are, you… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
“There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a… — Chandler Parsons Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The something inside me that always fought to win, that never gave into the pain and that accepted no less than 110… — Julie Krone Copy Share Image
Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today.… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially… — Roy Haylock Copy Share Image
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted… — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image