Acceptation Quotes

#1. Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Charles Babbage

#4. ACCEPTATION (ACCEPTA'TION) n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.

Samuel Johnson

#5. In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

John Stuart Mill

#6. It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Matthew Henry

#7. I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

Georges Bataille

#8. Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#9. Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

Henry MacKenzie

#10. I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.

Amy Grant

#11. It's a commonly known fact that while cats can't stand ghosts, spiders love them.

Jonathan Stroud

#12. I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

Cameron Mackintosh

#13. As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

L. Ron Hubbard

#14. The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people ... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Roger Ebert

#15. I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

Alison Brie

#16. If you elect to join the herd you are immune. To be accepted and appreciated you must nullify yourself, make yourself indistinguishable from the herd. You may dream, if you dream alike.

Henry Miller

#17. Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Desmond Tutu

#18. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.

Audrey Hepburn