It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend"… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Nope. I'm not the prettiest. I'm most definitely not the nicest. I'm not the smartest. I'm no where near popular. I don't… — Kayla Jackson Copy Share Image
I never had any doubts. I wanted MLS. I'd followed it on TV, and I liked it. And being able to play… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what… — John Pearson Copy Share Image
We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married… — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm upset at myself. I should have had 50. I missed 13 free throws. That's unacceptable. If I want to be accepted… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt 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
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
“and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone’s affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new… — George Saunders 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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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