Accepted Quote by Dean Acheson Download Open image “Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.” — Dean Acheson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accepted Controversial
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier… — Valery Giscard d'Estaing Copy Share Image
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?' — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
We've seen in terms of the reaction to some proposals in the Budget already how resistant that public opinion is to, first of all,… — Brian Cowen Copy Share Image
Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will.… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive. — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a… — Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Copy Share Image
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they… — Andre Pratte Copy Share Image
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
