Best 1155 quotes in «accepting quotes» category

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?" "Yeah," Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda.

Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

Sometimes it's hard to accept one's inner weirdo.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

The black church will accept anybody.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.