Accepted Quotes

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.