Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It’s only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.
When you look on the bright side, you’re acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don’t want to die. It’s like, ‘Well, too bad, we do.’
I accept I am not everyone’s cup of tea, but judge me over a period of time.
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid – if you’ll accept that.
There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King’s dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
In a deeply divided country we must either work together to get the best deal we can – and this needs compromise – or accept that Brexit cannot be implemented and think again about what we are doing.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
I’m a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you’re getting out. I’m also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
We’d accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
If you don’t embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won’t be able to live a happy life.
Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Accept loss forever.
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
We can change our lives for the better, and always have. We used to think pain during surgery and dying during childbirth were inevitable. We no longer accept that, and we shouldn’t just accept aging.
I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
We have to accept that we are just machines. That’s certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don’t accept it and you’re having a conversation with someone who does, it’s just one of those polite things where you don’t question their belief in ghosts. You just go, ‘Oh, yeah, okay.’ It’s amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
We would never accept a prime minister saying, ‘Well, maybe I’ll intervene and use a trade issue as a link to an independent investigation into criminal activity.’
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it’s okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.
The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
All the main parties accept that the stated wish of the United Kingdom electorate to leave the E.U. must be respected. That must place on us collectively a responsibility to work together to find a solution.
Words signify man’s refusal to accept the world as it is.
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn’t mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It’s a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren’t so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
This is something you have to accept in football. Someone will say you are overpriced, but I did not think about it. Maybe I was overpriced, but I believe in my quality and want to get better. If you know what you can do for your team, it becomes no problem, and you don’t even think about it.
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I’m proud of myself.
It wasn’t until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
