The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
Dennis Eckersley

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.
Stephen Cambone

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Alain Resnais

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
Bill Pullman

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.
Sean Hayes

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.
Gil Gerard

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
Phil Collins

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.
Julie Bishop

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
Linda Lingle

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
Samuel P. Huntington

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.
Chester Brown

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Ashley Judd

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
Jennifer Garner