Accepting Quotes

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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. — Euripides
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the… — Jean Baudrillard
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he… — Ellen Glasgow
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk… — Harold Bloom
You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on. — Tyra Banks
I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city. — Paula Cole
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior,… — Ruth Benedict
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. — Wendell Berry
Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality,… — Lynne Truss
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand. — Thucydides
As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it. — Elton John
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing. — Duane Michals
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg
Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit… — Martin Amis
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection.… — Phyllis McGinley
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball,… — Gregg Easterbrook

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