Acquiesced Quotes

#1. Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

George William Norris

#2. I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Alice Walker

#3. Did nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, condoned his meanness and acquiesced in his torture.

Virginia Woolf

#4. Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#5. Remembering her words, Tony, you are mine and nobody else's, he acquiesced; he'd met his match.

Aleatha Romig

#6. The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Richard Cecil

#7. Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

John Dewey

#8. Not only have consumers prioritized flash and laziness over empowerment, but we have also acquiesced to being spied on all the time.

Jaron Lanier

#9. No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

Seth Godin

#10. She felt as though she'd acquiesced in her own rape ...

Judith Rossner

#11. tamales with rice and beans - and

Kasie West

#12. It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Alan Perlis

#13. Lonzo made a show of patting down his pockets "Damn, I must have left my rope and grappling hook in my other pants.

Alexis Morgan

#14. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

Julie Burchill

#16. It was as if I had been dropped into the first chapter of a fairy tale - but we all know how fairy tales go.

Kathy Hatfield

#17. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#18. The infinite resource of creativity has and always will solve problems.

Brandon Mullan

#19. The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow.

John Sulston

#20. It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.

Siri Hustvedt

#21. The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

Steve Nash

#22. We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

Ravi Zacharias

#23. So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.

Judson Laipply