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The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly, underwrite it with their lives.
— 1945 The Air-Conditioned Nightmare,'With Edgar Var e' se in the Gobi Desert'.
Oh dear me — it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you — but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!
beatrice stella campbell— Letter to George Bernard Shaw (1 November 1912) published in Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1952), p. 52; this was later used in the play Dear Liar : A Biography in Two Acts (1960) by Jerome Kilty, an adaptation of the correspondence between Shaw and Campbell.
I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.
robert denning— The AD100 Architectural Digest (January 2000), v. 57 #1, p. 48.
Why don't they just accept that life is sad and cheer up it's not forever.
jeremy hardy— The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, June 2008
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
william dean howells— A Thanksgiving
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
elisabeth kübler-ross— Ch. 2 (Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975))
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
maurice merleau-ponty— p. 45 (In Praise of Philosophy (1963))
He absolutely refused to admit, much less accept, defeat when he was literally beaten on Lake Erie. He was that rara avis in our history, the true hero-patriot.
oliver hazard perry— Richard Dillon, in We Have Met the Enemy (1978)
Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favor human beings who accept and love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does with all my heart.
arthur rubinstein— From his autobiography My Young Years (1973), quoted in Carol Krucoff (August 13, 1982) "FOCUS: With a Little Bit of Good Luck", The Washington Post, p. D5.
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
william tecumseh sherman— Telegram sent to General Henderson in 1884; quoted in Sherman's Memoirs, 4th ed. 1891. This is often paraphrased: If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.
Thucydides— Book I, 1.144-[3]
— Variant translation: We must realize, too, that, both for cities and for individuals, it is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.As translated by Rex Warner (1954)
"No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start."
hayley williams— Interview about her highschool years with the 'Sugar' magazine
Woody Allen says at the end of Annie Hall that we’re always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it’s so difficult in real life [...] if we can accept Allen’s as a definition of art, then sabermetrics is absolutely an art. And, just as Kalkman notes, it’s an art whose practitioners are bent on seeing justice done in baseball, if nowhere else.
carson cistulli— The Long Hello: Some Notes on Luck (2009)
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
Peter Drucker— p. 24 (The End of Economic Man (1939))
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
e. m. forster— A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 3
Choosing only the things you like isn't irresponsible. If you can't find anything you like then why take the responsibility? I take only the possibilities that I'm ready to accept.
ayumi hamasaki— Surreal
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.
robinson jeffers— "Be Angry At The Sun" (1941)
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.
madeleine l'engle— Section 1.16
The United States must accept the responsibilities arising from the occupation of Iraq, and should not finger point or put the blame on others.
manouchehr mottaki— Iran FM attacks US policy in Iraq 4 May 2007
People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
richard m. stallman— Keynote address at the New York Linux Bazaar
I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.
stella vine— Mansfield, Karl. "The 5-Minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There have been a few times", The Independent, (2005-11-28)On age.
The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me that when one speaks to you of unbelievers who are in affliction and accept their affliction as a part of the order of the world, it does not impress you in the same way as if it were a question of Christians and of submission to the will of God. Yet it is the same thing.
— Simone Weil, Last letter to Father Joseph-Marie Perrin, from a refugee camp in Casablanca (26 May 1942), as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 111.
This is a free country. A free society throws up these kinds of people, who exercise their freedom in unusual ways. And if this is how he wants to do it, I must accept his constitutional right to do so.
— Mayor of Capetown Helen Zille — cited in: Cape Argus staff (7 May 2008). "Artist uses a different stroke on Zille portrait". Cape Argus (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 3.
Bills that include chargemaster prices are not a true reflection of actual price and if paid at the chargemaster list price would yield extremely large profits for the hospital. (50) It can be argued that because hospitals accept different payments from different payers for identical services, hospitals engage in price discrimination--the practice of charging different customers different prices for identical goods or services.
— Sandra J. Winterhalter (2011). "Economic factors converge: force hospitals to review pricing strategies". Journal of Health Care Finance 37 (4).
Palestine is an Arab and Islamic land, and nobody is allowed to forsake any part of Palestine. Any agreement or negotiations that grant the Jews any rights in Palestine are null and void from the perspective of Islamic law. Our religion does not accept such an agreement, and nor do our national interest or the interest of humanity.
— Hamed Al-Bitawi, head of the Palestinian Islamic Scholars Association, on Al-Aqsa TV (15 May 2007) ; also in transcript at Free Republic (7 June 2007)
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.
— Theodore Roosevelt, annual message to Congress (December 3, 1907); reported in State Papers as Governor and President, 1899–1909 (vol. 17 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., 1926), p. 461.
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win.
george s. patton— In stanza 1 of "Absolute War" a poem composed by Patton in July 1944, during Operation Cobra as quoted in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson p. 492.
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy , that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?
— As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE? magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
john lennon— John Lennon "Man of Decade" Interview (December 2, 1969)
“I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,” I said. “I want to be myself.” “Don’t be a child.” I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. “What?” “You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.”
n. k. jemisin— Chapter 22 (p. 299)
