Accepts Quotes
377 quotes by 317 authors
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I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented…
— John Breaux
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You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has…
— Richard Bach
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You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
— Robert Breault
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The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its…
— Maria Montessori
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I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor…
— Learned Hand
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A woman's long hair symbolizes that she submits to God's plan and to the family leadership of her husband. It is her glory. It is…
— David K. Bernard
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems…
— Lydia M. Child
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection.…
— Phyllis McGinley
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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
— Herbert Marcuse
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I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be…
— Taylor Swift
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There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric…
— Irving Howe
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Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.
— Robert K. Greenleaf
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Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality…
— Brennan Manning
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Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords…
— Jay Griffiths
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When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.
— Michel Houellebecq
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The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,
— Eddie McGuire
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It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live…
— Philip Yancey
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