#accept

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it. ↗

— Michelle Wie

#burdened #feel #give #hard #i

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#accept #binge #challenges #changing #constantly

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

#beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#age #along #drag #error #into

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#away #being #consequences #doing #gives

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes. ↗

— Klement Gottwald

#any #castle #changes #come #i

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility. ↗

— David Gower

#actions #best #give #helping #him

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#example #good #good example #i #i think