“We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingYearsSometimesWantedFeltAcceptingParticularMouthsCreditHeyOddInterpretationReviewers Author:John Lennon
“Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.” PeopleGivingNamesAcceptingWillingReadyMastersPureMouthsGoldSlaveFormerRighteous Author:Elijah Muhammad
“Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.” JobsAcceptingImpossibleHighestMouthsConnectionsMiseryDisappointmentExpectedPrioritiesInvisibleDespiteIdeologySupposed To BeAccomplishmentTreatmentPrizeConsolationContraceptionInfertilityConsolation Prize Author:Jennifer Morse
“Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.” LifeMeanAcceptingStupidMouthsOccasions Author:Albert Camus
“Christianity is the best way to cure gayness — just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.” MenWayBodyAcceptingChristianityMouthsWineBest WayCuresKneesGayness Author:Stephen Colbert
“While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael’s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he’d once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.” MenKindEyeBeautifulLeaderAcceptingMouthsUnderstoodWeaknessMadnessSevenWideMortalsBrownRaphael Book:Archangel's Blade Source: Archangel's Blade
“I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?” HumansMadeBodyPastFormFeltAcceptingSacrificeMouthsLipsMade ItHuman BodyGave Up Book:Hush, Hush Source: Hush, Hush