Barbara Gittings Quotes

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

Barbara Gittings

• Acceptance
• Compromise
• Homosexual
• Homosexuality
• Heterosexuality

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• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Agree
  • Compromise
  • Necessity

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?

  

  OMI
  • Think
  • Know
  • Compromise

• Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Future
  • Community

• Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Compromise

• There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Small
  • Acceptance

• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Peace

• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Animal

• People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

  

  Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • People
  • Work
  • Acceptance

• Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • God
  • Family
  • Father

• I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we have for understanding and acceptance is much greater. The arts are uniquely able to help us meet the greater needs.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Great
  • Help
  • Understanding

• When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Words
  • Acceptance

• I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.

  

  Eddie George
  • Money
  • Business
  • Compromise

• I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Proud

• Make 80 percent of the food you eat healthy, then take 20 percent of your daily calories and make them fun.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Daily

• When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Will
  • Undervalue

• In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.

  

  David Fontana
  • Mind
  • Personal
  • Protection

• What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

  

  Barbara Gittings
  • Acceptance
  • Compromise
  • Homosexual