Accepted Quotes

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.

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.

We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.