Accepting Quotes

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Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue… — William Morris Hunt
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than… — David Riesman
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty… — Jules de Goncourt
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as… — Moss Hart
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent. — Abe Fortas
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and… — Asa Gray
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of… — Ian Mcewan
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect… — Clifford Whittingham Beers
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in… — Peter Gabriel
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough. — Robert K. Greenleaf
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those… — Harold Rosenberg
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality… — Brennan Manning
Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation,… — Karl E. Weick
We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it. — Susie Orbach
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose… — David Puttnam
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be… — Sam Shepard
It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. — Kenneth Branagh
There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you… — Robert Powell
We're not very accepting of people who act strangely. — Chester Brown

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