Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.Elsie de Wolfe
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis -
A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
Vicki Lawrence -
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
Camille Paglia -
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells -
We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
Wendy Davis
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
Octavio Paz -
'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.
Jack Osbourne -
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
Van Wyck Brooks -
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
Vanilla Ice -
Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
Tupac Shakur
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou -
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
Albert Bandura -
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
Sandra Brown -
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein -
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Albert Einstein -
Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive.
Albert Einstein
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There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
Valerie Jarrett -
It generates a gravitational disturbance that makes our spacetime emit a brane into the higher dimensions of the bulk. It bounces off the Planck brane and collides with ours again.
Hannu Rajaniemi -
Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn’t control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
Elsie de Wolfe