“Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.” WellsTodayRaceGreaterMembersAcceptedEroticFrequencyLiaisonRace And Religion Author:Herbert Otto Gille
“Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.” FactsEvilAccepted Author:John Haynes Holmes
“Hillary Clinton has reportedly accepted Barack Obama's offer to become secretary of state. That's what they're saying in the New York Times. Yeah, according to Bill Clinton, this is the first time in 20 years that Hillary has said 'yes.'” YearsFirstsSaidStatesNew YorkOffersFirst TimeYeahBillsClintonAcceptedBarackSecretaryNew York Times Author:Conan O'Brien
“...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.” IfsMeanSchoolYoungDesireBeliefTermChallengesMy OwnDoubtEnlightenmentEmptySacredMereCriminalsAcceptedMeaningfulGrantedDataOfficialsAssumptionMediocrityInstructionCowsConventionalSubversiveIndoctrinationInstillSacred CowsThings We Take For Granted Author:Bertrand Russell
“One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.” PeopleNeedsDoeImportantFeltDarkWalksLove IsAcceptingWifeHusbandMarriedCriticismBasesImportant ThingsAcceptedValleysReach OutSpouseReservations Author:Charles L. Allen
“We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness.” KnowsMomentsHandsSufferingNextKissingEternityStrikesAcceptedGods WillThis LifeGod LoveSubmit Author:Margaret Mary Alacoque
“Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.” WellsMaySoulRunningValuesTurnsSocialChallengesModernConcernRootsCaringContraryAcceptedRadicalNormSocial LifeDeep Roots Author:Thomas More
“I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.” PersonsLongCountryGrewRight NowGrew UpLong TimeDrivenAcceptedLaid Back Author:Miranda Kerr
“To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.” MenMindStatesBodyCommonDestinyImpossibleConditionsCreaturesWeaponsIntellectualDevilSlaveryAccomplishAcceptedChainsMortalsRebellionStatus QuoFear Of DeathKeepersCommon ManFear God Author:Manly Hall
“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.” BeliefOpinionAcceptedDeservingLoving YouLoving Yourself Book:The Power Is Within You Source: The Power Is Within You
“Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.” PeopleAcceptedRelate Author:Janel Parrish
“I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.” ThinkingI CanWantedYoungCan DoBoysLimitsAcceptedCleverVery Clever Author:Paul Auster
“I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.” NeedsActorsStuffRiskReadyDirectorsTablesAcceptedFearlessGenerousRejectedAccustomedTarantino Author:Demian Bichir
“Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.” PeopleIslamAcceptedServantPakistanQuaidQuaid Azam Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it. It was gratifying to see the people who embraced it immediately and understood it and got into it. They have tracked the characters through the six episodes, so it felt that now we can launch into the journey element of it. And really explore more of the Badlands.” PeopleWorldIdeasCharacterShowsFeltAudienceJourneyElementsSixUnderstoodAcceptedConfusedIntroducingEpisodes Author:Miles Millar
“I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.” MenFeelsStillsCareGivenWhiteOpinionTakenBehaviorFeministDon't CareAcceptedI Don't CareActivistCrucialFeisty Author:Kola Boof
“As soon as I accepted that I am this kind of writer and I happen to live here, and stopped going to meetings and stopped beating myself up because I wasn't making a ton of money writing for some stupid sitcom, I felt really at home.” WritingKindHomeHappensFeltStupidMeetingsAcceptedSitcom Author:Meghan Daum
“However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.” PeopleThinkingMadeBookMatterStatesFactsStoriesUnitedResultsUnited StatesLaughingStudentsHeroMy FriendsAcceptedEducatedWealthyAwardsFrighteningOutrageousIranianCaricaturesSellersBest Sellers Author:Mohammad Marandi
“Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.” MenLongStillsProblemHomeCoursesNamesDarkViolenceConditionsHe ManMarriedEuropeAcceptedCoreToleranceCirclesIslamicPrisonerIgnoredEpidemicsDominance Author:Alice Schwarzer
“I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.” WorldWritingLittlesWholeClubsAcceptedWriting Poetry Author:Victoria Chang
“We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.” KnowsLittlesCountryStatesAbilityDecisionMembersInfiniteUnionsDecadesAcceptedImmigrationBordersCriticizeIntroducingEuropean UnionSwedenBorder Control Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.” MenDifficultCreativeDangerousGeniusBehaviorAspectDoctorsAccepted Author:Kate Zambreno
“If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.” IfsKnowsNeedsBookPurposeReadingStuffSpaceWhitePiecesWrittenProjectsPagesStonesSentencesAcceptedCrapPrintedSpoken WordAnthologyPrinted WordWhite SpaceProsody Author:Richard Meltzer
“Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.” WayFeelingsUsedActorsWalkingCreaturesImpactAcceptedBunchZombieWalking DeadDeath Coming Author:David Hayter
“When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.” FeelingsFightingFantasyTrainingSittingAcceptedI RealizedFlyingNosesSatBombsPilotsAirplaneJetBeing Accepted Author:Morgan Freeman
“We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.” LongDifferentExpectedAcceptedConform Author:Junot Diaz
“You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.” PeopleIfsCertainDegreesAcceptedScorn Author:Junot Diaz
“Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.” DoneHomeBigsTogetherAmericaCan DoAchieveProgramNuclearAcceptedWorking TogetherIranResolveComing HomeBig ThingsRemindersUnprecedentedMonitoring Author:Barack Obama
“The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.” PeopleMenIdeasModernPeriodsSpeciesAcceptedDescent Author:Manisha Sinha
“Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.” ShouldShowsPurposeChristAccepted Author:Margaret Cho
“The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.” MindStillsReasonFantasyAcceptedGreat ThingsObsessedWho We AreJaneAusten Author:Jennifer Coolidge
“People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.” PeopleThinkingModernLateAcceptedConversionErasEmpiresPhenomenonJudaismRoman EmpireProselytizing Author:Susan Jacoby
“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.” PeopleWayKindStillsUseLanguageMovementGayAreasAcceptedVocabularyDisenfranchised Author:Amy Ray
“Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.” IfsKnowsWayWantI CanKidsGrewNormalGrew UpToughAdvantageAcceptedGuidanceAnother WayWay To LiveParentalPlaces I've BeenParental Guidance Author:Christian Hosoi
“Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God because it was made according to God's instructions. Cain, however, tried to approach God in his own way and was rejected by God (Genesis 4:3-5). From that point on, Cain became a symbol of those who try to approach God on their own terms.” WayTryingMadeTermSacrificeApproachAcceptedSymbolsInstructionRejectedGenesisCainAbel Author:Robert Jeffress
“If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.” IfsSimpleAnswersArgumentAcceptedPhysicsCompletenessGood Questions Author:David Papineau
“You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.” LooksSelfWould BeCommunityChurchWeekWorstTerribleBehaviorBurdenAcceptedDespiteCommunionForgivenRedeemed Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.” ThinkingMenYearsActorsExampleJokesDown AndScriptsAcceptedOld ManAwardsDeliciousPush UpsSupporting Actors Author:Bruce Vilanch
“It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.” IdeasPoliticalValuesGroupsFitAcceptedConclusionResearchersBad Ideas Author:Philip Kitcher
“However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.” ThinkingNeedsHumansDoeImportantHumanityChanceCommonParticularPerspectiveDependsLimitsAcceptedMetaphysicalOutlookRecogniseHuman NeedsCommon HumanityBeing Accepted Author:Alison Assiter
“I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother. So basically what I'm trying to tell my kids is just, it's their mother's fault and it's not my fault.” NeedsTryingStatesKidsLyingMotherOrderCitizensFitEqualFaultsIsraelAcceptedJewish Mother Author:Sayed Kashua
“Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.” ParentRolesAcceptedMy SisterEntertaining Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat.” YearsArtTwoJobsThreeTeacherMastersFineDefeatAcceptedThree YearsGraduatesCompetingFine Arts Author:Kurt Wagner
“I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.” ThinkingWarDown AndPrisonBonesAcceptedCanadaSincerityWinding DownConscientious Objectors Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.” WantedGenerationsAcceptedElectronic Music Author:Thomas Bangalter
“The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.” NeedsHas BeensDifferentTodayFunPartyGenerationsFocusedAcceptedStatementsHaving FunIdeologicalYounger GenerationElectronic MusicGood Party Author:Thomas Bangalter
“I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.” KidsAmericaPiecesGayMarriedAcceptedFabricVery HappyBeing GayHaving Kids Author:Amy B. Harris
“I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.” YearsCitiesFourNew YorkTrainingTheaterAcceptedNew York CityBalletFour Years Author:Misty Copeland
“Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.” WorldFoundAcceptedPlaces In The World Author:Neon Hitch
“In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.” IfsFirstsMatterScienceCertainFaithUnderstandingPrinciplesSubjectsUnderstoodAcceptedSubject Matter Author:Nicholas of Cusa