Accepted Quotes

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

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

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.

The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything

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

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.