#accepted

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#addressed #could #count #deepest #dropped

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#audible #cocktail #music #wallpaper

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#becomes #between #broken #character #discrepancy

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#able #accepted #been #britain #century

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

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accepted #any #around #astonished #basically

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#agreements #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #committee

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#always #change #instead #itself #late