Accepted Quotes
1348 quotes by 1122 authors
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted…
— Stephen Spender
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I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But…
— John Lennon
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I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting…
— Vera Brittain
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I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.
— Patti LaBelle
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The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly
— Norman Thomas
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You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not…
— Paul Tillich
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Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
— Cyndi Lauper
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I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather…
— Janet Jackson
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My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings -…
— Michael Klaper
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
— C.S. Lewis
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
— Nigel Farage
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Empathy provides more than just information about relationships. It is an expression of being in relationship. It is not just a means to better healing…
— Maureen O'Hara
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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.
— James Hansen
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It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it
— Jens Lehmann
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Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming…
— Henri Nouwen
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English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of…
— Edward Sapir
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Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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