There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career has been wanting to do EVERYTHING! I always say I wish I could clone myself so… — Mally Roncal Copy Share Image
For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of… — Richard Brown Copy Share Image
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.” — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
I am definitely not the normal girl. I'm not some skinny blond, you know? I chose strong over skinny. So, I am… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I've often said why does God leave us here on earth, once we accept Christ, once we're in the family, why didn't… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image