Accepting Quotes
4387 quotes by 2787 authors
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Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
— Michael Bolton
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We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the…
— Steve Yzerman
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A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality…
— Stephen Shore
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I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very…
— Laura Marling
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
— Jean Monnet
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When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.
— Jacques Barzun
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It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for…
— Jacques Derrida
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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they…
— Thucydides
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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy…
— John F. Kennedy
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship…
— Harold Pinter
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Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know…
— Lance Bass
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If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept,…
— Maxim Gorky
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I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real…
— Mike Huckabee
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
— Bridget Riley
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.
— Piet Mondrian
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