Accepted Quotes (365 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Shoshana Zuboff
„Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.“
― Shoshana Zuboff ―
Picture of quotation author Theodore Zeldin
„Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.“
― Theodore Zeldin ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Trisha Yearwood
„Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.“
― Trisha Yearwood ―
Picture of quotation author will.i.am
„Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.“
― will.i.am ―
Picture of quotation author Orville Wright
„If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.“
― Orville Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Chely Wright
„It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!“
― Chely Wright ―
Picture of quotation author John Woo
„'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.“
― John Woo ―
Picture of quotation author Len Wiseman
„I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that is not always widely accepted by the general audience, which is just a reality; a movie of a certain size, they don't want people to be too - it's a balance of how deep to keep going with these ideas.“
― Len Wiseman ―
Picture of quotation author Robert Winston
„It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.“
― Robert Winston ―
Picture of quotation author Rebel Wilson
„I went to a Christian high school, so I went under my middle name. I don't think they would have accepted me in the school - 'This is Rebel'... so I have two middle names, Melanie Elizabeth, and I went under those. But Rebel's way cooler.“
― Rebel Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author Casey Wilson
„I didn't have the greatest ride on 'SNL,' but I always felt support from gay fans, which made me feel accepted within a place I didn't feel totally accepted.“
― Casey Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author Juan Williams
„The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.“
― Juan Williams ―
Picture of quotation author George Whitefield
„And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?“
Picture of quotation author Ryan White
„The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.“
― Ryan White ―
Picture of quotation author Edmund White
„If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.“
― Edmund White ―
Picture of quotation author Kanye West
„Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?“
― Kanye West ―
Picture of quotation author Allen West
„I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.“
― Allen West ―
Picture of quotation author Ai Weiwei
„I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.“
― Ai Weiwei ―
Picture of quotation author David Weinberger
„Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.“

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