Accepts Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

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
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and… — Alberto Manguel
As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be… — Jane Roberts
She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance.… — Morgan Llywelyn
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with… — Paul Bowles
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or… — Carl Sagan
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,… — Carlos Fuentes
Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are… — Henepola Gunaratana
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits… — John Updike
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that… — Brad Warner
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. — Libba Bray
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing.… — Frederic Chopin
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence. — Dalai Lama
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be… — Wendell Berry

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