Accepts Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought… — Mathias Malzieu
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but… — Chris Claremont
Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that… — Veronica Roth
genius accepts genius unconditionally — Dan Brown
When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people.… — Gavin de Becker
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives… — Viktor E. Frankl
Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only… — Jennifer Chiaverini
Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time. — Lisa Unger
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants. — Daniel Gilbert
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection,… — Thomas Wolfe
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that… — R.K. Narayan
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it. — R.K. Narayan
Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and… — Albert Payson Terhune
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened.… — Timothy Keller
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. — Rumi
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan

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