Acceptable Quotes

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.

There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.