Quotes About Accepted

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.

I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was 'sex kitten,' 'sex symbol,' 'sex goddess,' 'sex pot.' I've accepted it, and I'm flattered, but in some ways, it's been a hindrance to me because I haven't been able to be taken seriously as an actress.

But synthesizer music has been accepted as emotional for long enough that it isn't a huge reach, conceptually, to think of a fake voice as 'emotional', especially since there's a human composing it.

But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.

I have made and accepted my own version of the natural order of things, and actually supposed a universe that has, or damn well ought to have, my convenience in mind.

Sadly, the now-accepted, international church forgot that it, too, was once considered a mere cult.

Permissiveness constantly deprives children of the examples of adult-centred life where they can find the place they seek in a natural hierarchy of greater and lesser experience, and where their desirable actions are accepted and their undesirable actions rejected, while they themselves are always accepted. Children need to see that they are assumed to be wed intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and want a reliable reaction from their elders to guide them.

Cold was something that was accepted, like air, clouds, and parents; a fact of Nature, and as such could not be used in any fraudulent scheme to stay out of school.

accepted the cup the servant handed him

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

I think it used to be an accepted leadership tactic to essentially abuse people.

In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.

Once passion was set in motion according to its own laws, then it was irresistible. This was a theory that would never be accepted by modern law, which took it as self-evident that conscience and reason ruled man.

'Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people. It's a movie that they cherish. and I feel very welcomed and accepted by people because of that.

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.

Over time "Pikers" became accepted as a term that referred to people who were slow of speech, plodding, and not ambitious in business.

This became the generally accepted Russian Marxist position.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

Era una costumbre que te pertenecía, un detalle curioso, una anécdota que te caracterizaba. Sí. Junto a tu nombre se alzaba a modo de una pequeña leyenda tu afición por el té. Ni el vino, ni la cerveza, ni siquiera el pisco. Pero el té no consiguió disminuirte o ridiculizarte, sencillamente se inscribió como un hábito si no respetable, posible, una costumbre que todos aceptaban y que no obstaculizaba.