Acceptable Quotes

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration.

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

To me, the acceptable level of fecal matter is... zero.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

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

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.

I want to change the cycle of stigma and prejudice that destroys lives all over the world every day. Until we can get in front of people and awaken them to the idea that this is not acceptable.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

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.

The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.