I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
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
You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
The truly happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating.… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.)… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will… — Rick Warren 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
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I believe I accepted the first hit of crack because I am an addict, and that's what addicts do. There was nothing… — Ruben Castaneda Copy Share Image
I was a salsa dancer for the majority of my life, from, like, 7 to 17, and did the World Salsa Congresses.… — Gina Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I… — Josef Koudelka 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
Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief,… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image