Accepted Quotes

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On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted. — Robinho
It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect… — Wess Stafford
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same… — Benjamin Wiker
In this fast paced world it is too frequently the case that people accept what society, family members and the authorities, whom nobody ever seems… — Ann Wigmore
I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I… — Daniel Radcliffe
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the… — John Drinkwater
I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going… — Mark Hamill
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didnâ€™t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and… — Oscar Niemeyer
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of… — Victor Hugo
Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked… — William C. Dietz
If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else. — Richard Adams
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense… — James Madison
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which… — Charles de Gaulle
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle… — Allan Bloom
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe,… — Thom Yorke
I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up… — Thom Yorke
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more… — Alfred Bester

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