#accepted

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#accepted #ago #am #ancient #appeared

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#accepted #any #authentic #become #between

This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive. ↗

— Ellen Muth

#alive #back #because #cannot #dark

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant. ↗

— John Pearson

#accepted #covenant #great #his #isaac

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! ↗

— John Pearson

#affection #best #esteemed #excellent #father

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#been #blues #doing #done #full

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. ↗

— James Sanborn

#accepted #actually #agency #between #commission

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted. ↗

— Willie Aames

#act #actor #actually #because #become

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. ↗

— John Adams

#children #consented #fate #give #house

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#edwardian #emotional #emotional life #gets #life