Best accepting & has-beens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.”

“The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.”

Has Beens Two Able Moving President Accepting Taxes Office Blue Moving Forward Finance Enthusiasm Administration Gas President Obama More Money Infrastructure Charitable Ribbons

Author:Ray LaHood

“A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.”

“Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.”

People World Has Beens Reason Done Accepting Europe Ultimate Victim Reason Why Target Holocaust Palestinian Anti Semitism Abomination

Book:We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

Source: We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

“All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.”

Knows Littles Has Beens Lost Given Christ Accepting Grace Population Portions Sheep Stolen Fullness Redeemed Lost Ones

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”

Knows Men Has Beens Art Done Use Seems Able Artist Born Known Accepting Ordinary Lifetime Rejects Afternoon Now And Then Great Art Great Artist Ordinary Man

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”

Ifs Should Has Beens I Can Ends Age Turns Mistake Accepting Mankind Stupid Nervous Shells Hook Pastries Nervousness Stupid Mistake

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.”

“That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.”

Ifs Men Years Has Beens America Known Accepting Sun Angry Historical Corruption Setting Settings Empires Republic Falsehood Publish Nothing New

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

“The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.”

Ifs Mind Children Has Beens Facts Would Be Form Accepting Feet Proof Sufficient Mature Acceptable Favour Infant Flexible Infancy Crippled

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.”

People Has Beens Government Form Lying Belief Stuff Accepting Willing Right Now Concepts Aliens Coming Out Closets Belief Systems Coming Out Of The Closet

Author:Gillian Anderson

“All of the great leaders down through history have told us we become what we think about. In fact, they have been in complete and unanimous agreement on this point while they disagree on almost every other point. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people rarely think, they simply accept what they see or hear. The next time someone gives you a suggestion, rather than simply accepting and acting on the suggestion - THINK - exercise your reasoning factor. Ask yourself if the suggestion will improve the quality of your life.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Has Beens Facts Next Asks Acting Quality Leader Accepting Exercise Majority Factors Reasoning Agreement Disagree Next Time Suggestions Great Leader

Author:Bob Proctor

“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

“I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Film Accepting Agree Screens Not Sure Get Away Gross Grotesque Thesis

Author:Ivan Reitman

“I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.”

People Ifs World Believe May Has Beens Stills Seems Wish Accepting Atheism Position Strange Speech Raised Positive Atheism Minorities Globes Freedom Of Thought

Author:Richard Leakey

“The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.”

World Giving Doe Has Beens Given Accepting Buddhism Mysterious Description Heritage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.”

Has Beens Ideas War Country Government Grief Accepting Citizens Normal Fellows Majority Iraq Ignorant Advertising No Idea Experts Iraq War Abnormal Deceptive Public Education

Author:Gore Vidal

“Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.”

Wells May Has Beens Done Government Form House Speak Results Accepting Doubt Position Regard No Doubt Rejects Resolution Documents Treaties Proceeding Propriety Quebec

Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee

“Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.”

Wells Has Beens Ideas Culture Strong Race Accepting Emotional Safe Chinese Singapore Swamps Other Cultures Safe Places Accepting Others Strong Emotional

Author:Nicolas Berggruen

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Action Earth Found Loss Accepting Forever Air Victory Embrace Everyday Defeat Gentle Settling Pockets Target Flags Defeated Everyday Life Sigh Silk Drifting Turbulence

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.”

Has Beens Would Be Accepting Cases Honesty Needed Injustice Favors Favour Pardon Unwilling

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.”

Want Has Beens Enough Use Party Effort Accepting Deserve Safety Refuse Excuse Access Cease Rejection Holiness Mediocrity Denied Want Me Oppressed Better Life Injured Sanctity Victimization

Author:Maya Angelou

“A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.”

Men Children Has Beens Able Father Memories Accepting Style Acceptance Strive Feminine Tenderness Childlike Closeness Later In Life Parenting Styles

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!”

Giving Has Beens Reason Universe Accepting Generations Subjects Judging Method Vices Contemporary Rational Visible Innate This Generation Between You And Me

Author:Adelard of Bath

“There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.”

Has Beens Stills Life Is Certain Accepting Grace Expectations Good Things Expected

Author:Emmylou Harris

“I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.”

Has Beens Accepting Media Ready Criticism Decades Phantoms

Author:Mamata Banerjee

“God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.”

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.”

“That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

Men World Kind Has Beens Matter Spirit Literature Language Pay Accepting Doubt Prepared Flesh Tribute Martyrdom

Author:Anthony Burgess

“I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.”

Knows Has Beens I Can Whole Accepting Whole Life Bother Surfing Better Now

Author:Paul Walker

“The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.”

People Ifs Has Beens Important Enough Opportunity Individual Accepting Class Issues Grace Movement Bottom Tolerance Inequality Saving Efficiency Important Issues Saving Grace

Author:Milton Friedman

“If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Kind Has Beens Ideas Past Accepting Environment Like You Behavior Determination Determined Educated Instance Dominant

Author:Greg Graffin

“I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.”

“Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.”

“If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.”

Ifs Has Beens Matter Choices Culture Memories Accepting Cutting Share Genius Achievement Complexes Myth Contrast Thread Inherent Technological Great Achievement Wizardry Unraveling

Author:Wade Davis

“I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.”

Source: Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

“I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.”

Long Has Beens Reason Accepting Demand Direct Prepared Denial Deceit

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.”

Feels Has Beens Prayer Silence Accepting Meditation Concepts Decided Sheer Invitations

Author:Laurie Beth Jones

“A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.”

Has Beens Country Government Liberty Accepting Population

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package for this bicentenary is actually accepting blood money. We've still got people with leprosy and we still got tremendous problems. These problems have not been our problems, they're the problems of the European population of Australia.”

People Has Beens Stills Problem Accepting Blood Concerned Population Australia Packages Aboriginal Leprosy

Author:Warren Mundine

“The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.”

People Men Has Beens Accepting Opinion He Man Distinguished Snob

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...

“I'm definitely one of the best. Always have been; always will be. I won't accept anything less.”

Has Beens Accepting

Author:Ed Belfour

“Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.”

Ifs Has Beens I Can Ends Enough Hate Can Do Accepting Crime Bargains Hate Crime Had Enough I Can Do It Pact Love Myself Perpetrators

Author:Margaret Cho

“The attention I get has been great. It has opened so many doors for me. It's nice that people are accepting beautiful women as athletes. It's encouraging to girls that muscles don't mean you can't be beautiful.”

People Mean Has Beens Beautiful Girl Attention Accepting Nice Doors Athlete Muscles Beautiful Women

Author:Jennie Finch

“Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.”

People Has Beens Government Numbers Half Accepting Willing Program Aids Dependent Pension Paychecks Handouts Government Aid

Author:James Bovard

“It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.”

Littles Has Beens Stills Matter Facts Realizing Accepting Growing Standing Growing Old Little Time Standing Still

Book:Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections

“We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.”

“Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred books, or because it has been believed by many, or because it has been handed down by your ancestors. Accept and live only according to what will enable you to see truth face to face.”

Has Beens Said Book Faces Accepting Teacher Written Sacred Ancestor Face To Face

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.”

“If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.”

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