Accepted Quotes

I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

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.

In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

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.

Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus.

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.

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.

I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

Screw that, the questionn at hand is what's your major?" Oded said. "Because let me tell you right now, any answer other than World of Warcraft or Advanced Ninja Studies will not be accepted.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever. For me, forever was a serious matter" - Georgina about

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.

On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted.

More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

There isn't anything you can expose Trump on that people don't already know and haven't already accepted.

There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

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.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.