Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
Jerry Seinfeld

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Gertrude Stein

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.
Mike Myers

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Emma Goldman

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. Woodson

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
Yo-Yo Ma

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Simone de Beauvoir

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Jimmy Swaggart

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers