Sentence examples for accept things as from inspiring English sources

"We accept things as they are".

"Never accept things as they're portrayed," was his advice to journalists.

They were radical, wanted change, they were not prepared to accept things as they were".

Many people are eager to tell us that there is no alternative to the existing economic order, that we have to accept things as they are.

(From the brilliant Ladybird Book of Mindfulness, part of the new satirical series aimed at nostalgic grown-ups: "Mindfulness has taught Leanne to accept things as they are: rubbish, expensive, unfair and out-of-date every six months").

"I was just kind of raised with a sense that you don't have to roll over and accept things as they are when something like this happens," he said.

He proposed the neutral position of accepting things as they appear without further analysis.

He can live quite nicely, according to Sextus, by following custom and accepting things as they appear to him.

But he also said: "I believe if Yasir Arafat accepts things as they were presented by President Clinton, we are also compelled to accept them".

Corporations and governments have built massive economic and political systems based on our accepting things as they are, and they will fight powerfully against any reforms.

Yes, I'm probably better about it than I used to be, and my hope is that I will continue to let it go, more willingly accepting things as they are.