I Accepted Quotes
61 quotes by 56 authors
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I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now…
— J. G. Ballard
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I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
— Margaret Sanger
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I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I…
— Ricki-Lee Coulter
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I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
— Michelle Shocked
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As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept…
— Peace Pilgrim
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I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without…
— George Sand
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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's…
— Charles Stanley
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Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on…
— Rod Stewart
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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal…
— Ai Weiwei
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It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to…
— Ralph Ellison
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There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
— Hermann Hesse
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was…
— Charles Bukowski
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My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think it might be…
— Mary Hoffman
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I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the…
— Hermann Hesse
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I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in…
— Terry Goodkind
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Jeremy had a plan for getting Clay back and I wasn't allowed to know anything about it or allowed to help him carry it out.…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most…
— Leila Aboulela
Who Wrote These I Accepted Quotes
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