Accepted Quotes

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart.

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.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

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.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

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.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

For love of country, they accepted death.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.

It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it's not just what I do in the gym but it's also an accepted lifestyle.

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

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

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

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.

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.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

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.