All Quotes

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.
‐‐ Teri Hatcher

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
‐‐ Paul Tournier

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
‐‐ Jean Toomer

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).
‐‐ Chuck Todd

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
‐‐ Bob Barr

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
‐‐ Caitlin Doughty

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
‐‐ Nicholas Negroponte

Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

Access to a college degree is critical.
‐‐ John Sharp

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
‐‐ Ed Pastor

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
‐‐ Sam Graves

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
‐‐ Kent Conrad

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

Accessibility is key. MMOs are great for traditional gamers who have a lot of time to become immersed in a world, but the mass market wants things bite-sized.
‐‐ Craig Sherman

Accessible design is good design.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
‐‐ Gavin Newsom

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.
‐‐ James Belushi

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
‐‐ John Dos Passos

Acclaim is a distraction.
‐‐ James Broughton

Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
‐‐ Doug Larson

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
‐‐ Albert Bandura

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
‐‐ Patrick Macnee

Accomplishments have no color.
‐‐ Leontyne Price

According as the man is, so must you humour him.
‐‐ Jean Racine