Quotes About Acceptance

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

Often with bigotry it's passive not active.

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

For me, humor was always my passport into new communities.

I am not ashamed of my past; I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

I try to forget the past.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

I don't like to dwell on the past.

I remember that in the past I was overwhelmed with the mystery of anxiety, or the mystery of depression, but now when you feel that feeling coming on you no longer go into fight-or-flight mode. You go: 'Oh, I know what this is' and you ride it out.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.

I hate when pastors have a gay son and then they become pro-gay.

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

I used to have really bad skin, and when I was younger, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch and pink-rimmed glasses.

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

I've got alopecia so I've got bald patches all over my head and I grew up with that, so obviously I've become accustomed to it, but it's still not nice when people are saying it in your industry when they know you've got a condition.