To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it – may be not about the characters, nor about the piece,...

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

I’m under no illusion that there are things about me that I’d like to change. I just accept who I am, and I’m proud of it.

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the “right” pressure.

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

I was hot so I gave myself a haircut. I then saw a bald man sweating, so I offered to tweeze his eyebrows. He accepted and was so grateful that he offered to trade mustaches with me. In remembrance of that special bonding moment, I still wear his mustache over my left nipple.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that’s not for me.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can’t. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so.

Silence is not our weakness, this is the power to forgive and accept you.

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

After 13 years, I couldn’t accept to be number two.

I like people who don’t accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I’m not sure how much I’d have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren’t circumscribed by circumstance.

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key… and bolt the door at once.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there’s nothing you can do about it.

The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

We must accept all of God’s will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Integrity is the integument that makes intelligence more acceptable

People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don’t like.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don’t accept anything less.

The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.

Prose Poems from my book SPANOBSERVATIONSo, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it, and love it. We can turn our faces to the light and examine the minutest details simply for the sake of it. We can live lives of joy and purpose. We are all...

I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.

You can’t say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can’t just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don’t accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders...

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it’s dealt, that’s all.

There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.

When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it’s scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

It takes enough courage to accept the truth and it takes only truth to accept the courage

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

The older I’ve got, the easier I’ve found it to accept myself. I think I’ve finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

It’s very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it’s ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

I finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.