Accepting Quotes - Page 27

• We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?

  John Ralston Saul

  Office, Public Service, Should

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fall, Grace, Neighbor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.

  James Martineau

  Sacrifice, Self, Voice

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.

  George W. Bush

  People, World, Kind

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Theatre, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.

  Karrine Steffans

  Men, Abuse, Welcome

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Melting, Want, Able

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Taken, People, Sacred

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

  Lil B

  Life And Love, Live Life, People

  "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.

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• I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Guilt, Tests

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• The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

  Judith Weir

  Good Enough, Danger, Deadline

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• It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Trying, And Love, Needed

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• Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

  Aaron David Miller

  Real, Ideas, America

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• There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves.

  Melody Beattie

  Pain, Real, Grief

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• To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.

  Richard Stearns

  Jesus, Mean, Hands

  Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Thinking, People, Quality

  "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.

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• Love means nothing if you can't accept someone for their core values.

  Katie Chapman

  Mean, Core Values, Ifs

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• When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

  Joan Anderson

  Blessing, Expectations, Given

  Joan Anderson (2011). “A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman”, p.30, Broadway Books

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• If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Fall, Love Life, Humility

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• What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.

  Esther Earl

  Insecure, Self, Tasks

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• Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

  Srikumar Rao

  Stress, Stuff, Happens

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• Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.

  Srikumar Rao

  Stress, Views, Desire

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• People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Teaching, Men, Order

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• Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

  Walter Lippmann

  Idols, Ideas, Fruit

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

  George Eliot

  Women, Made

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.167

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