Quotes About Acceptance

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

I accept roles which are challenging and surprise me, inducing hard work and thinking. Such opportunities are few and far between but when they come I grab them.

I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody, but then the stuff that I'm the most proud of, and probably even got the most success from, was outwardly an expression of queerness or gayness. That's been a nice surprise.

I can't control everything that's said, but I've been around. Nothing will surprise me.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

Everybody comments that I'm white. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more criticism for it. I'm always expecting any day now it's gonna come. I guess I just attribute the lack of hate to people hearing the music and hearing how much I genuinely love it.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.

People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad.

I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

When I read, I don't need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don't need to have my heart broken. I don't need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don't need to swoon.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

When you're around for as long as I have, nothing surprises you any more.