Accepted Quotes

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

I finally accepted Jesus. not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

I do hope having done what I did, and America having accepted me the way they did, opens the door for more global talent, which should have representation in global entertainment.

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.