Top 100 Quotes About Accepted
#1. Lesbians and gays ... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
Catherine Deneuve
#2. Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.
Luke Rhinehart
#3. It wasn't that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was perfect. I accepted that where I was in life, was exactly where I was supposed to be.
The Hippie
#4. My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'
Joe Namath
#5. Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.
Stephen Fry
#6. The Bible never says those who believe in God will be saved; only those who believe that He had a Son who rose from the dead can be saved (Rom. 10:9). Talk about narrow doctrine; we who have accepted Christ as
Calvin Miller
#7. Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington
#8. A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.
Madonna Ciccone
#9. All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#10. We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.
Robert Shapiro
#11. In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
Timothy Noah
#12. I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black
Hines Ward
#13. All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in the
conscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#14. Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And, in accepting it, Unk gained an understanding of life that was identical with the writer's understanding of life. Unk wolfed down a philosophy.
Kurt Vonnegut
#15. It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.
Stephanie Mills
#16. But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text ...
Frederick Seitz
#17. Thane had never been one of the idealists; he'd accepted Wedge Antilles's invitation not because he believed the Rebellion was pure good but because he'd learned the Empire was pure evil.
Claudia Gray
#18. All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?
Derrick Jensen
#19. Woman wants to be taken and accepted as a possession, she wishes to be merged in the conceptions of " possession " and " possessed "; consequently she wants one who takes, who does not offer and give himself away,
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Bruce Lee
#22. We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country.
George Osborne
#23. Aiden, his brains are on the foyer floor, I'm pretty sure that is a universally accepted indicator that a person is dead.
Alanea Alder
#24. My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.
Jessie Cave
#25. It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
Freeman Dyson
#26. My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.
William Powell
#27. He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.
Jennifer Grant
#28. Growing up, I never accepted my curves, but when I got the opportunity to become a plus size model, I was able to appreciate my voluptuous body and love myself, not only on the outside, but on the inside.
Hayley Hasselhoff
#29. Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.
George Saunders
The Bookseller
C. Robert Cales
#30. A child ... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
Heinrich Boll
#31. had changed. She wasn't the same insecure girl who had accepted that envelope. She
K.C. Klein
#32. He never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward.
Primo Levi
#33. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.
Henry Lipson
#34. What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?
Pema Chodron
#35. North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.
Evgeny Morozov
#36. Were there socially accepted ways to curtail dull conversations?
Brent Weeks
#37. Only one answer will give a person the certain privilege, the joy, of entering heaven. Because I have believed in Jesus Christ and accepted Him as my Savior.
Billy Graham
#38. Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?
Leo Tolstoy
#39. By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
Martin Filler
#40. I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.
Jennifer Warnes
#41. Very senior librarians, however, once they have proved themselves worthy by performing some valiant act of librarianship, are accepted into a secret order and are taught the raw arts of survival beyond the Shelves
Terry Pratchett
#42. Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#43. firmly believe science is yet in its infancy concerning the cosmology of the earth. There is so much that is unaccounted for by the world's accepted knowledge of to-day, and will ever remain so until the land of "The Smoky God" is known and recognized by our geographers.
Willis George Emerson
#44. We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.
Harold Klemp
#45. I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#46. The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
#47. There isn't anything you can expose Trump on that people don't already know and haven't already accepted.
Rush Limbaugh
#48. The town's young parents especially prized this idea of Newton as a child's paradise. Many of them had left the hip, sophisticated city to move here. They had accepted massive expenses, stultifying monotony, and the queasy disappointment of settling for a conventional life. To
William Landay
#49. We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
Albert Einstein
#50. I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
Boris Becker
#51. Presently I somehow found myself singing. The words were mere nonsense- irresponsible babble ... Humanity would have rejected it with scorn. Nature, everywhere singing in the same key, recognized and accepted it without a flicker of dissent.
Kenneth Grahame
#53. I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more.
Matthew Stokoe
#54. When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them ... And here I am, still at it.
Ian McKellen
#55. The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.
Ashley D. Wallis
#56. Weakness, recognized, accepted, and offered, is at the heart of belonging, so it is at the heart of communion with another.
Jean Vanier
#57. And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same - playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?
Graeme Simsion
#59. Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.
Nadya Suleman
#60. As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
J. Allen Hynek
#61. she alone understood all that he was, both good and bad, and accepted him, loved him, without reservation.
D.B. Reynolds
#62. I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know.
Izabella Scorupco
#63. To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.
Katherine A. Briccetti
#64. The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
Victor Hugo
#65. Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.
Nikki Reed
#66. People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.
Amy Ray
#67. The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to two fundamental issues: 'What are the accepted and applicable 'rules of world order,' and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?'
Noam Chomsky
#68. I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
Erich Segal
#69. Punching out an argument is an accepted form of conflict resolution in the man code. It's part of our bylaws.
Kristen Callihan
#70. Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.
Reginald Fessenden
#71. The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
Douglas Kennedy
#72. Gideon was a man who'd lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he'd accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future I was afraid to imagine. I was so scared I'd only be setting myself up for a heartbreak I couldn't survive.
Sylvia Day
#73. Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
Peter Drucker
#74. The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.
Louise Hay
#75. I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.
Art Alexakis
#76. Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it.
George Soros
#77. Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king.
Megan Whalen Turner
#78. If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.
Jane Roberts
#79. A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
#80. We all belong here equally ... Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.
Polly Horvath
#81. When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.
Mary Doria Russell
#82. Looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.
Laini Taylor
#83. There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
Paulo Coelho
#84. When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.
Brenda Shoshanna
#85. Maybe he's accepted our fate as well, I tell myself and hope it's true. As much as I'm unhappy with the pairing, I hate that I must be just as much of a disappointment to him.
Shannon Duffy
#86. I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.
Paul Giamatti
#87. Unable either to practice science without the Principia or to make that work conform to the corpuscular standards of the seventeenth century, scientists gradually accepted the view that gravity was indeed innate
Thomas S. Kuhn
#88. You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.
Gary Chapman
#89. Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#90. The balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.
Peter Hitchens
#91. I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Alejo Carpentier
#92. Don't go the distance trying to fit in the crowd and be accepted by others. Accept and respect yourself first. Loving thyself also goes with this.-Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#93. Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?
Shinzo Abe
#94. Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#95. Effective as perspective is ... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.
Graham Collier
#96. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
#97. The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
Gabriel Marcel
#98. My best audience and where I'm happiest is in the gay community. That's where I feel the most accepted. It's a community that appreciates pop culture like no other. For me, that's where I'm home and I always want to come home.
Katerina Graham
#99. [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
Antonin Artaud
#100. but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.
Charles Williams
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