Accepted Quotes
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.
I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.
I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.
Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.
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.
We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.
Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'
I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.
In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant.
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.
Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.
When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.
I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.
The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.
With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?
If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
People don’t like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they’ve accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor.
By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.