I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away,… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
I'm not a real crazy social butterfly - and once I realised that and I accepted it, I started to realise how… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with… — Donald T. Phillips Copy Share Image
I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics… — Vijender Singh Copy Share Image
I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their… — Roger Casement Copy Share Image
And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image