Acceptable Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

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.

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

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

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what's acceptable on the Left

Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

All the stereotypical ‘dude’ geeky things I like are socially acceptable, and all the stereotypical ‘lady’ geeky things I like are frowned upon….