“It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesPersonsLostLossMissingLike YouAcceptedLittle Things Author:Rachel Hawkins
“Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has never been proved at all. However, like relativity, it is accepted on faith.... On getting down to actual details, difficulties begin.” Has BeensTwoScienceTheoryEvolutionDifficultyDetailsAcceptedVaguePreciseRelativity Author:Anthony Standen
“I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.” WantYearsMadeTodayCultureReligiousBehindsGrewGrew UpTraditionAcceptedWho I AmLeaving MeReligious Family Author:Brendon Urie
“I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.” HateDyingClimateClimate ChangeAccepted Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I do remember seeing Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar, one of those. It was a liberation theology venue. Anything radical seemed to be accepted there. I definitely picked up the idea there that you should question authority.” ShouldIdeasRememberJesusChristSeeingAuthorityJesus ChristAcceptedTheologyRadicalLiberationSuperstarVenuesJesus Christ Superstar Author:Ian MacKaye
“The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.” IdeasVirtueAcceptedNarcissism Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.” ThinkingDesireStruggleAcceptedOppressedNormality Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“When they got here, when they successfully emigrated - and not everybody that came through Ellis Island was accepted. If you were sick you were not allowed in. If you had any kind of a disease, we were in the process of trying to wipe out all these diseases. We did that by keeping people who had them out of the country. You might look at it today as, "Wow, that was really mean." No. It was putting America first. It was putting the American people first, and it was a realization that we can't take everybody.” PeopleIfsTryingFirstsLooksKindMeanCountryMightTodayAmericaProcessDiseaseSickAcceptedRealizationIslandsWowWipeReally MeanEllis Island Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We just totally have abandoned reality here, and the Democrats have created a new reality that is not real whatsoever that people have bought into and accepted, to the point now where the upholding of current law is what's considered lawless and partisan and political, and [Barak] Obama attempting to skirt the law and ignore the law is what people think is the law!” PeopleThinkingRealRealityLawPoliticalDemocratCurrentsAcceptedAbandonedAttemptingSkirtsPartisansBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There isn't anything you can expose Trump on that people don't already know and haven't already accepted.” PeopleKnowsHavensTrumpAccepted Author:Rush Limbaugh
“So many people, my friends and family, were all saying, "You're so funny. Why don't you become a comedian or an actor?" But it wasn't a reality at the time, it wasn't a road that Latin people were accepted in.” PeopleRealityActorsMy FriendsAcceptedComedianLatinFamily And Friends Author:John Leguizamo
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.” InspirationalHeartTurnsFearChangeCourageGoneAcceptedConfusionMoving ForwardDespiteOvercoming FearParts Of LifeFear CourageLove And FearFears Of LifeConquering FearTime For A ChangeFear Of ChangeConquer Your FearsCreating ChangeFear Of The FutureFear Of FlyingHeart Pounding Author:Erica Jong
“A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.” IfsWantWantedAmericaPeriodsSafeJewBritishAcceptedGermanyPalestine Author:Elie Wiesel
“I have seen a lot of people, by the way, who were pro-life become pro-choice. No one seems to have any difficulty with that at all. That's easily accepted. But, if you are pro-choice and you become pro-life, there are a lot of folks, particularly in the media, who find that unacceptable.” PeopleIfsWaySeemsChoicesMediaDifficultyFolksAcceptedPro Life Author:Mitt Romney
“I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.” WritingFirstsBookWorstChangedSickTwentiesIllnessDecadesAcceptedExoticChanged My Life Author:Judy Blume
“I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so much by the time I was graduating high school I was accepted into Berklee College of Music.” TryingYearsSchoolCollegeCoupleBandHigh SchoolGuitarAcceptedGraduatesGraduating High School Author:John Petrucci
“Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review; that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.” PeopleIdeasReasonLawAbilityConstitutionCourtAcceptedReviewsScopeJudicialJudicial PowerJudicial Review Author:Sam Brownback
“I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.” ThinkingWorldFeelsBookWould BeCareRunningWantedPainLastsSufferingNationsChanceForgetModernRight NowChinaAcceptedFrustrationOlympicsWho CaresDisturbanceTibetanTibetLast Chance Author:Pico Iyer
“My girlfriend says that I thrash throughout the night, for longer periods than are generally accepted as corresponding to REM sleep, and she often has to move to the couch to get any sort of rest before she goes to work in the morning.” MovingNightSleepMorningPeriodsAcceptedGirlfriendCouchesMy GirlfriendCorresponding Author:Keith Murray
“I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.” PeopleHardHappensCertainWinningChanceRaceAcceptingCrazyHard WorkEasierHappeningsAcceptedThings HappenInjuredDecrease Author:Usain Bolt
“Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.” PeopleMayMeanDifferentGroupsExampleParticularAuthorityAcceptedDifferent ThingsTruthfulDocumentsIgnoredDifferent Peoples Author:D. A. Carson
“I was accepted to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which is a terrific Aggie school, and they had a great forestry program. But when I saw the syllabus and realized what I was going to actually have to be studying, there was a lot of science! If you want a degree in forestry, it's basically a science degree. And I just thought, "No, no, no, wait a second. Never mind!"” IfsWantMindStatesSchoolWaitingStudySawsDegreesProgramUniversityAcceptedTerrificColoradoFortsSyllabus Author:Keith Carradine
“Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?” HeartTwoNextPlayerFootballMy HeartPagesAcceptedBrokeOffensiveTextbooksFootball PlayerJuxtapositionBroke My HeartTwo Meaning Author:Sarah Silverman
“In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the desire to agree with many, many things. So I used to get beaten quite frequently and I more or less accepted it as part of life.” UsedDesireFeltAgreeAcceptedBeatenUnjustParts Of Life Author:Edmund Hillary
“I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.” PeopleIfsUseCareSongInspireRight NowDon't CareAcceptedI Don't CarePublishersSigning Off Author:Sammy Hagar
“I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual being accepted by the Establishment. So, this kind of personal thinking, combined with, say, even the little bit more radical thinking - because at one time the pacifist movement was a very radical concept.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindLittlesIndividualBitsLevelsMovementLittle BitMassConceptsRaisesAcceptedRadicalOne TimeEstablishmentPacifistBeing Accepted Author:Ella Baker
“Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.” Has BeensEnoughFactsCertainValuesClassRolesToo MuchMiddleKingsIndependentIndependenceAcceptedResistanceRecognitionExplanationMiddle ClassLuther Author:Ella Baker
“I'm always going to hear people make that connection and I've just accepted it. It's alright. I'm just happy that I get to do my own thing now. I learned a lot from the show [the Voice] as far as being in the TV world and being in front of the camera, which is really great because I'm not as nervous in front of the camera as I was before.” PeopleWorldShowsVoiceMy OwnFrontsTvsConnectionsCamerasAcceptedNervousReally GreatAlright Author:Melanie Martinez
“Whenever any argument comes up, you remind her, "You cheated on me." Your relationship has no chance. You agreed to set it aside. You accepted that it happened and you accepted her explanation and you agreed to move forward, but then as you move forward, you continue to lay that off on her, and you never let her forget. Your marriage doesn't have a chance, if you don't let it go.” IfsMovingChanceForgetHappenedArgumentLaysCome UpAcceptedMoving ForwardExplanationOur RelationshipLet It GoCheatedForget YouCheated OnYou Cheated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.” YearsShowsTogetherFightingBecomingBandMethodAcceptedGalleryImpressionists Author:Oliver $
“Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.” ImportantBookSocialProcessLevelsResultsAcceptanceActivityHighestAspectImportanceStressMathematicsProofAcceptedPsychologicalComponentsReproduction Author:Alexandre Borovik
“We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.” StreetsModernDeterminationTownsAcceptedPlanning Author:Le Corbusier
“I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I disagree with accepted view (even if it's a Nobel laureate).” IfsBelieveViewsDon't BelieveAcceptedDisagreeNobelUncommon Author:Michael Burry
“No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.” WritingEndsFormCan DoAbsolutesStartingDenyAcceptedReputationImmortalitySemblance Author:Emile M. Cioran
“In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.” WorldWayArtShowsBigsKnownNew YorkAcceptanceEuropeMovedRoundsAcceptedSlidesBerlinArt World Author:Nan Goldin
“When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.” ChildrenArtSaidKidsSchoolArtistLeftBrainStruggleCollegeSonPleaseMajorsHigh SchoolMathAcceptedMy ChildrenMy SonDisappointedCapabilityArt SchoolAdvisorsLeft And RightBeing Accepted Author:Frank Gehry
“My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'” PeopleFirstsKindMeanLongSaidFeelingsSupportEmotionalLike YouMomIndustryLong TimeMy MomAcceptedCooksKitchenOne TimeBeing ThankfulMusic IndustryAdjustingSupport SystemsEmotional SupportCooks In The Kitchen Author:Jillian Hervey
“As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.” WantHumansMayDifferentAbleActionEarthFormCommunityPlanetsCreatingClimateClimate ChangeAcceptedErasHuman LifeOrganizedTolerateHuman Actions Author:Noam Chomsky
“Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics and anti-theology dismayed him. His 'monadology' which said that the true atoms of nature were unextended 'living mirrors,' was an imaginative and beautiful system, and even in many ways more modern than Epicurean atomism, than Epicurean atomism, but there was a reactionary aspect to it.” IfsWorldWaySaidBeautifulSimpleMoralModernAspectArgumentMirrorsComplexesAcceptedTheologyAtomsEntityImaginativeReactionariesIndestructibleDismayedEpicurean Author:Catherine Wilson
“Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.” YearsFirstsStatesLastsNationsBlackPresidentBornNaturalUnitedUnited StatesFiveWeekTrumpCoupleCitizensClaimsAcceptedFive YearsLegitimacy Author:Lester Holt
“Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.” Good ThingsCreditSpendingAcceptedCardsCredit CardWalletsSpending MoneyDebitDebit Cards Author:Jean Chatzky
“Hillary Clinton and her husband set up a private foundation called the Clinton Foundation. While she was secretary of state, the Clinton foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign donors. Now y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff, foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the American political process.” KnowsNeedsStatesGovernmentPoliticalStuffProcessMillionsHusbandFoundationDollarsClintonAcceptedSecretaryDonors Author:Mike Pence
“I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years.” YearsCareersSmartRiversAcceptedFearlessComedianOver 50 Author:Roy Haylock
“I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.” YearsArtMadeDifferentMomentsHomeSchoolUsedJoyRealizingActingWeekDisciplineSummerHigh SchoolProgramEightMathAcceptedPerformingGovernorsJuniorsAway From HomePerforming ArtsJunior YearJunior Year Of High School Author:Zachary Quinto
“When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.” PeopleAudienceAccepted Author:Norm MacDonald
“It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.” WellsMotherFeltAcceptedGrandmotherMy GrandmotherLike Love Author:Michel'le
“When I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces - that wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be accepted by my brothers and to be their peers.” WantedFacesBitsWhiteBoysBrotherMoonAcceptedMy BrotherPeers Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“In America, we've been around for 240 years. We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them. And that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election.” YearsMayAmericaStageFairsStandingElectionExpectedAcceptedDebateOutcomesGeneral Elections Author:Hillary Clinton
“Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.” IfsWorldHas BeensPracticeDemocracyTheoryAcceptedAround The WorldCommunismFascismDemocracies HaveLiberal Democracy Author:Samuel P. Huntington