Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

I spent eight years with Berlusconi, and I still have a good relationship with him.

The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach’s job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage – ever at all. I’ve had it. Three times is enough.

Self-acceptance is the foundation for all other things.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best – out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

I’ve kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I’ll spring back to what I originally was.

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I’ve made through acting, in terms of another actor. He’s fantastic.

I’m thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

I want to protect my club. I want to try to protect my players. I want to try to protect my fans. Also, I want to try to protect the Premier League.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.

Scoring a century in a World Cup final, that’s the stuff dreams are made of.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I’m not a bad person.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Self-acceptance is the key to peace.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

The characters I play often have a sense of innocence and quirkiness that I find appealing.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That’s why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin’ luvly figgers and me stayin’ flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

It doesn’t matter how pretty you look it’s how many runs you get.

The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn’t have before and perhaps write a song about something that I’ve written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

We need to stop being so complacent about our role in the world.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Hashim Amla is someone that stands out. He’s a world-class player and I have not had a huge amount of success against him.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public’s acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they’ll accept the dance.

Where you record is very important. It can’t be too nice, it can’t be too expensive, it can’t have a view to an ocean or a field.

Simplicity – that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that’s it – simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn’t exist.

The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.

Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down.

But you’re so hypnotizing You’ve got me laughing while I sing You’ve got me smiling in my sleep And I can see this unravelling Your love is where I’m falling But please don’t catch me

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.

They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

It’s true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves – the good and the bad.

I am a footballer, and I want to play football.

You want to stake your own claim. You don’t want to be called a copycat.

With sons and fathers, there’s an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

I like nice clothes, whether they’re dodgy or not.

I thrive on the darkness.

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you’re not going to like the view.

The goal of the company is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy.

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That’s who I’m dating.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.

We played well in Kenya. We didn’t lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don’t need to change much from that for this tournament.

I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Intellectually I’m probably a Republican.

I left ‘Saturday Night Live’ without a film to go to, and I’d filmed ‘Old School’ while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn’t come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I’m always a bit down. I’m not that way at all. I’m fun-loving.

That sense of failure, I don’t know where people put it who don’t write songs and aren’t able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Sometimes you have to look through the dark to see the light.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

All you can do is all you can do.

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn’t possible.

The ESPYS are about appreciating moments in sports and not looking down on it because it’s maybe not your favorite athlete or your favorite team.

The West is trying to impose its values on others, and that’s unacceptable.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

My job as a filmmaker is to make people see the world in a different light.

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God

More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

I started riding the whole ‘fluffy’ train, and it’s a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl ‘fat,’ yo, she’ll raise hell, but if you say, ‘Aw girl, look at you, you’re fluffy,’ there’s almost a sexy appeal to it.

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

Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

No,” said the priest, “you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.” “Depressing view,” said K. “The lie made into the rule of the world.

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.

To live in any sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

To know the mighty works of God, all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we’re comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.

Anyone who attempts to do both—to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal—becomes neurotic

You wanted to accept everything, so accept madness too.

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life

We cannot change anything unless we accept it

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

I’ve learned that regret is just a socially acceptable form of time travel.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others’ rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong

The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.” No arguments will give courage to the coward

Conceit may bring about one’s own downfall.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

United we stand, divided we fall

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

If you want to succeed, strike out on new paths. Don’t travel the worn paths of accepted success.

There is no trouble in patience and there is no benefit in complaining.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person

Growth takes place when the next step forward is subjectively more delightful, more joyous, more intrinsically satisfying than the previous gratification which we have become familiar and even bored.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.