Quotes with accept

Quotes 61 till 80 of 211.

  • Walt Whitman Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bob Dylan I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Asa Gray I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Walt Whitman I accept reality and dare not question it.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Richard Dawkins I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • E. B. White I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Audre Lorde I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Malcolm X I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • W. H. Auden I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Reggie Jackson I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
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  • Albert Ellis I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Anne Campbell I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Joan Rivers I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Salman Rushdie I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Beth Ditto I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Angela Davis I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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