#acceptance

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #because #came #core #days

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. ↗

— Martha Graham

#age #glory #maturity #term #years

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun. ↗

— Jared Harris

#actor #every #fun #having #i

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#achieved #american #contract #crazy #entitled

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#distrust #division #more #need #now

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#forgiveness #lessons #those #tolerance

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#community #every #feeds #i #i think

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

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook