To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. – Groucho Marx
When we talk about Oscars, it’s almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. – Harvey Weinstein
Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone’s colony. – Hugo Chavez
I didn’t ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I’m wrong about this, I guess I’ll become a bum. – Hal Lindsey
Most Israelis have a sense, ‘We just don’t want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don’t want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally’ – not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating. – Ian Lustick
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route. – Harriet Walter
The words ‘come unto Christ’ are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you could ever offer to another person. It is the most important invitation anyone could accept. – Henry B. Eyring
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger. – Greta Scacchi
I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept. – Gerald McRaney
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet. – Gary Kovacs
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics. – Henry Adams
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made. – Greg LeMond
You’ve accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept. – Harry Kroto
I don’t accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory. – Glenn Hubbard
Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely. – Herman Kahn
I don’t want to be all worthy about it, but I don’t do red carpets, I don’t do events and I don’t accept freebies that much. – James McAvoy
It’s hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. – Janine di Giovanni
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a ‘C.L.E. Moore Instructor.’ I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T. – John Forbes Nash, Jr.
The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don’t accept that you need to be compartmentalised. – Justin Timberlake
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die. – James Taylor
Any union that can’t accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. – Jacques Delors
I always date younger men. For some reason that’s just the way it’s gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept. – Jennifer Coolidge
When you take a job, you don’t just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants. – Joe Torre
