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Acceptance Quotes

All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community’s revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.

– David Novak

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

– Daniel L. Doctoroff

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

– Christopher Gadsden

Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.

– Monica Johnson

My mum is slightly biased and feels everything I do is wonderful, but Dad was like, ‘You should go ahead boldly, and I think you should do more films.’ To me, that was some kind of acceptance.

– Dulquer Salmaan

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

– Dennis Prager

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

– Evangelos Venizelos

My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I’ve always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he’s one of our unsung heroes. He’s been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I’d just like to bring him to the forefront.

– Michael K. Williams

The essential problems remain the same… The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

– E. L. Konigsburg

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

– Clay Aiken

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there – there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

– Dee Dee Myers

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

– George MacDonald

I’m thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

– Daniel Radcliffe

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

– George Orwell

That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

– Dan Brown

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

– Eckhart Tolle

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

– Eugene Kennedy

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

– Madeleine L’Engle

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they’re crazy.

– Malcolm Wallop

I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

– Nora Ephron

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

– Fernando Pessoa

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That’s like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

– David Mamet

I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

– Gary Johnson

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

– Nathaniel Branden

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore’s 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry’s speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).

– Chuck Todd

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap ’em. Cancel ’em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

– Mark McKinnon

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

– Michael Shermer

Not to be harsh, but why do we care so much about celebrity acceptance of Christian beliefs?

– Monica Johnson

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just – I crave it.

– Gabriel Iglesias

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

– Michael Learned

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