If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
Col. Mathieu: Should we remain in Algeria? If you answer "yes," then you must accept all the necessary consequences.
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.
When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.
In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love.
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
Until you have experienced the true love of God, you will continue to accept his or her version of love and call it faith. #ChooseToWin
Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.
We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.
I have learnt that trusting another takes a leap of faith; taking a risk and putting emotions on the line. This is in the hope that the other will accept and understand you.
He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.
