Accept Quotes
4888 quotes by 3112 authors
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
— Jean Monnet
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When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.
— Jacques Barzun
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It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for…
— Jacques Derrida
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they…
— Thucydides
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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship…
— Harold Pinter
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Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know…
— Lance Bass
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If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept,…
— Maxim Gorky
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.
— Piet Mondrian
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What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.
— PJ Harvey
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
— PJ Harvey
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Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
— Gary Burghoff
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If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it…
— Gus Grissom
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In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
— Leon Krier
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