I Accept Quotes
234 quotes by 184 authors
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Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
— Bill Watterson
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
— Walt Whitman
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once…
— Audre Lorde
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How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but…
— Ishmael Beah
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop…
— Roland Barthes
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got…
— C.S. Lewis
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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation…
— Thomas Merton
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I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns…
— Henri Matisse
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I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever. (Fang)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now —…
— Jack Kerouac
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But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I…
— Haruki Murakami
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The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3.…
— Gail Carson Levine
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To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have…
— Charlotte Bronte
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He gulped. "No, we aren't done chatting. Why aren't you afraid of dying?" "Everything and everyone has an end," she said. "I mean, you're going…
— Gena Showalter
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