Top 100 Cannot Accept Quotes
#1. People have the false habit of putting an artificial gap between the spiritual and the financial. We cannot accept this habit because life is an integral whole which we should understand deeply.
Samael Aun Weor
#2. Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.
Sharon Salzberg
#3. The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.
Linus Pauling
#5. The worst thing that could happen is that we hold back and play tentative because we "fear" disappointment. If we cannot accept the possibility we might fail, we most certainly are not prepared to succeed.
Mike Margolies
#6. There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#7. NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.
Sergei Lavrov
#8. The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.
Michael Kirby
#9. Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#10. One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.
David Novak
#11. The student of prehistoric man ... cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.
Arthur Keith
#12. Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.
Zicheng Hong
#13. In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
Tariq Ramadan
#14. The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.
Chen Shui-bian
#16. I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.
Albert Einstein
#17. A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.
Michael Joseph Brown
#18. And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.
Marcus Luttrell
#19. I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention ... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
Thurgood Marshall
#20. The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God's great knowledge, their abilities versus God's priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works.
Ezra Taft Benson
#21. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.
Infallibility is a sin in any man.
All laws can be broken and are.
Often.
Craig Ferguson
#22. We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.
John Boyne
#23. Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#24. But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Walter Lang
#25. We cannot accept this sort of money from a stranger.'
'Maybe it's not a stranger,' Susan said.
'Then that's even worse!' Elizabeth retorted. 'My God, can you imagine? Some horrid person treating us like puppets, pulling our strings, thinking he can control our destiny?
Julia Quinn
#26. My heart cannot accept what my mind rejects.
Anonymous
#27. The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.
Mohammed Morsi
#28. If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy
Milan Kundera
#29. Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.
Neale Donald Walsch
#30. You did not seduce me. I came to you. If you cannot accept my strengths as well as my weaknesses, if you cannot take from me as well as give to me, you cannot love me.
Celeste De Blasis
#31. What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
John Shelby Spong
#32. I cannot accept merely ... I do not do anything merely.
Peter Shaffer
#33. An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.
Fletcher Wortmann
#34. More often than not, the things we detest and judge in others are a reflection of the things we cannot accept about ourselves.
Iyanla Vanzant
#35. The logical side of our brain convinces us that these events are all merely coincidences. Pure happenstance. That, The Legend of John Titor, must be wild-eyed fiction. The mind cannot accept any other conclusion as rational. Keep
E.A. Blayre III
#36. In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.
Loung Ung
#37. At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.
Keith Moon
#38. The number one reason why people stay stuck is because they cannot accept that they are stuck. Accept that you are stuck, that something needs to change, that you have plateaued, and that you have stopped growing. Realize and understand who and where you are in life.
Farshad Asl
#39. Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
#40. When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body.
Eckhart Tolle
#41. People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
Libba Bray
#42. The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.
Greg Rucka
#43. Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
Chris Abani
#44. Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.
Barbara Smoker
#45. I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
#46. The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.
Ellen Willis
#47. My mind blazed with ravishing lies. I thought, I cannot accept this gift of myself, myself as a gift, of my person, of having this mind that does not stop burning, that deceives itself and consumes itself and immolates itself and believes its own lies and chokes on plain fact.
Paul Harding
#48. The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.
Ronald Knox
#49. We cannot accept love from another human being when we do not love ourselves, much less accept that God could possibly love us.
Brennan Manning
#50. We were tolerated. and that is unforgivable. If you cannot accept a man wholeheartedly, then you should have the fortitude to repudiate him.
Kwame in The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi
Arthur Japin
#51. It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.
Nathaniel Branden
#52. Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.
Nathaniel Branden
#53. Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years.
Brad R. Batdorf
#54. A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#56. Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.
Erich Fromm
#57. There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.
Susanne Bier
#58. Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
Louise Bourgeois
#59. scientifically speaking - you cannot. Accept it. You simply cannot make any nation completely corruption-free. It is only an absurd fairytale. It feels good to talk about it, but it cannot be made a reality.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#61. People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
Martin Yan
#62. Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.
Eckhart Tolle
#63. That's why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls, at least if by 'soul' we mean something indivisible, immutable and potentially eternal. Such an entity cannot possibly result from a step-by-step evolution. Natural
Yuval Noah Harari
#64. Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and torture are the apparatus of terrorists, not of civilized societies. If we become like them, what hope do we have?
Michael Robotham
#65. We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#66. The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert Spencer
#67. People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.
Jean Vanier
#68. There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.
Ariel Sharon
#69. Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].
Sayyid Qutb
#71. I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
Wole Soyinka
#72. People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.
Malalai Joya
#73. I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
Hugo Claus
#74. America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#75. I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.
Edward R. Murrow
#76. I cannot accept any more from you without knowing the price
M.J. Haag
#77. I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change ... I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
#78. Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept.
Bill George Peter Sims
#79. I'm chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart. Ignoring the emptiness around me, and hoping for a resurrection of love.
LeAnne Mechelle
#80. If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.
Eckhart Tolle
#81. We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.
Dick Bennett
#83. At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.
Daniel Fried
#84. You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.
John Kuypers
#85. If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.
Russell Edson
#86. I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.
Andry Rajoelina
#87. Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
#88. Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness! ... He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, Well Done.
Neal A. Maxwell
#89. One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
Gustave Le Bon
#90. Our language is rich with implication, so it is easier for us to accept the existence of things that cannot be explained. The Lethani is the greatest of these.
Patrick Rothfuss
#91. There exists in every person a place that is free from disease, that never feels pain, that cannot age or die. When you go to this place, limitations which all of us accept, cease to exist. They are not even entertained as a possibility. This is the place called perfect health.
Deepak Chopra
#92. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
Kabir Bedi
#94. We see in one another the things we cannot see or accept about
Iyanla Vanzant
#95. Change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference.
Richard Carlson
#96. But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.
Christopher Ryan
#97. He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves.
Hilaire Belloc
#98. [ ... ] there exists something beyond what we have in front of us. Something equally real, but that a camera cannot perceive. So I have to learn that sometimes it is necessary to give oneself up to the mystery. And accept that it is not granted to us to understand everything.
Donato Carrisi
#99. Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#100. Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
