The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".
Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.
Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.
It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.
Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.
Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.
When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.