Best 1155 quotes in «accepting quotes» category

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

The quest for stability or homeostasis is silly. We should accept that we live on an incredibly dynamic planet in a rapidly changing environment, and do our best to have the most amazing experiences we can.

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the consequences to refuse to comply with a greatly unjust law.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.

There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.