Accepted Quotes
1348 quotes by 1122 authors
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What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
— George Orwell
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I'd accepted a while ago that there were too many reasons for me to even think about him romantically anymore. Every once in a while,…
— Richelle Mead
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ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been…
— Richelle Mead
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Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
— Nhat Hanh
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When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude.…
— Thomas Gilovich
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Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever.…
— Richelle Mead
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When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could…
— Sharon Kay Penman
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I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young…
— Anne Lamott
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I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not…
— Portia de Rossi
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He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had…
— Karl Marlantes
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I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
— James M. Barrie
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What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated…
— Ben Okri
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Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted
— Hanif Kureishi
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We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood,…
— Peter Høeg
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It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or…
— Maxwell Maltz
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I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to…
— Joyce Meyer
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Anya made you kiss her? Yeah. And at our next stop, I'll expect you to deliver. I'll pay, William piped up. After you describe everything…
— Gena Showalter
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