Accepting Quotes

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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — Gertrude Stein
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and… — Henry David Thoreau
For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,… — Ralph Ellison
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was… — Roald Dahl
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset… — Ted Nugent
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But… — Anne Lamott
My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and… — Zlata FilipoviÄ‡
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they… — Joseph Campbell
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there… — Catherynne M. Valente
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has… — John Steinbeck
To accept oneâ€™s past â€“ oneâ€™s history â€“ is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An… — James A. Baldwin
In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work,… — Madeleine L'Engle
I decided to accept as true my own thinking. — Georgia O'Keeffe
As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a… — Wangari Maathai
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture… — Kenneth Grahame
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. — Arthur Conan Doyle
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual… — Albert Schweitzer
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting… — Agatha Christie
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once… — Audre Lorde

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