Acceptable Quotes

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.

There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

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.

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

The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable

I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.