Accepting Quotes - Page 9

• Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

  Robert Breault

  Change, Mean, Want

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• Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

  Robert Breault

  Failure, Awards, Might

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• To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Requirements

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• You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Betrayal, Fall

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• What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Sometimes

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• The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

  Robert Breault

  Parent, Bruises, Hardest

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• My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Heart, Ignorance

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• I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

  Louise Hay

  Arms, Wide, Deserve

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.

  Warren Jeffs

  Prayer, Race, Rocks

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  W. H. Auden

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  Euripides

  Destiny, Men, Tears

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Discovery, America

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Believe, Responsibility, Men

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  Harold Bloom

  Finals, May, Form

  "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages". Book by Harold Bloom, 1994.

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• I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

  Paula Cole

  Cities, Bigs, Versions

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• We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

  Ruth Benedict

  Important, Roles, Inheritance

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• The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

  Wendell Berry

  Age, Invisible, Form

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.86, Counterpoint Press

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• Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

  Lynne Truss

  Nice, Fall, Pay The Price

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• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Suffering, Obedience

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• So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

  Thucydides

  Truth, Men, Hands

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

  Elton John

  Unhappy, Radio, Pops

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Eye, Focus

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