Accepting Quotes
4387 quotes by 2787 authors
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If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,
— Eric Holder
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Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put…
— Branch Rickey
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Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It…
— Henri Nouwen
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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.
— Parker J. Palmer
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The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change…
— Parker J. Palmer
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It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.
— Robert Dallek
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If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get…
— Jon Katz
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Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need Him?
— David Platt
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Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important…
— Chancellor Williams
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It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.
— Ray Johnson
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Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to…
— Moby
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The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a…
— Paul Goldberger
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and…
— Joseph Murphy
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It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership.…
— Bill W.
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So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no…
— Bud Selig
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The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game
— Dennis Eckersley
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I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as…
— James Branch Cabell
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If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
— David O. Selznick
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