#accept

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. ↗

— Bill Gates

#always #change #coal #come #electricity

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#actually #administration #africa #again #american

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt. ↗

— Susan George

#america #been #crises #during #elite

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#actually #before #character #down #expected

The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#along #business #go #important #important thing

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#compromise #excuse #fight #human #human rights

I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum. ↗

— Hal Lindsey

#accept #ask #become #bum #christian

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it. ↗

— Bai Ling

#also #born #cannot #follow #i