Accepted Quotes
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it
To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.
The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.
It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.
News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)
I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
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.
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.
Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.
With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.
Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.
I remember very clearly when I found my first soulmate, it was actually in my late 20s, that wonderful feeling of being accepted by people.
My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times.
Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.
If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.
Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.
We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.
I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.
The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.
The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.
The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.
Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.
I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.
He snarled at me. "This isn't over yet, Betsy." "Excellent," I said. "I would also have accepted 'You haven't seen the last of me' and 'You'll regret this'.
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.
