#accepted

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#against #am #certain #comfortable #going

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you? ↗

— George Whitefield

#accepted #address #another #day #grace

We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#because #carry #course #flag #fly

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #becomes #bribe #changes #effect

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman! ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#another #culture #does #people #simply

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#accepted #because #been #considered #country

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#accepted #animal #began #behaviour #hard

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

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#background #bass #developed #handful #i

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #architectural #architecture #beginning #beijing