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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. -- Franz Kafka
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. -- Richard Carlson
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. -- Jacques Derrida
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. -- Todd Barry
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. -- Sydney J. Harris
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. -- Cheryl Hines
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. -- Douglas Booth
The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people. -- Owen Paterson
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. -- Amitabh Bachchan
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Arne Jacobsen
From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. -- Adam Clayton
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people. -- Nas
Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. -- Bill Murray
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society? -- Rose George
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. -- Jerry Falwell
I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable. -- Patricia Heaton
Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live. -- Jane Siberry
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement. -- Peter Singer
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it. -- Gabriel Iglesias
The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable in this country. That has to do with the fact that you have the Redskins, the Braves, you have people who dress up like Indians, people dress up like Indians on Halloween. That is acceptable. -- Winona LaDuke
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. -- David Bowie
I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman! -- Vivica A. Fox
Inaction is no longer acceptable. -- Eric Lowitt
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. -- Ambrose Bierce
Equity is the only acceptable goal -- Paul Farmer
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. -- Pamela Hansford Johnson
Spying among friends is never acceptable. -- Angela Merkel
Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable -- John Flanagan
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game. -- Julien Torma
All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't. -- Mary Pipher
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life. -- Adi Da
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins. -- Alexander MacLaren
Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination. -- Laura Furman
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. -- E. L. Doctorow
Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them. -- Peter Adejimi
A gift in time of need is most acceptable. -- Ovid
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances. -- Leigh Brackett
The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter. -- Timothy Hallinan
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute. -- Garry Kasparov
It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves. -- Kesha
Integrity is the integument that makes intelligence more acceptable -- Constance Chuks Friday
The will of God is good, acceptable and perfect -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. -- Deepak Chopra
Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable. -- Jack D. Schwager
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport. -- Rick Scarborough
I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques. -- Megan Fox
Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter. -- Steve Aylett
It is only love which makes us acceptable to God. -- Therese of Lisieux
Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help. -- Andy Borowitz
Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into. -- Hisham Matar
To me, the acceptable level of fecal matter is... zero. -- Richard Jeni
The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie. -- Rachel Hartman
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian. -- Pope Francis
The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. -- Benjamin Franklin
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. -- David Mamet
The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace. -- Bryant McGill
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others. -- Patrick White
Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public -- Paulo Coelho
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. -- Constance Baker Motley
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable. -- Yann Martel
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional -- Matthew Gray Gubler
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. -- Joseph Addison
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. -- Alicia Silverstone
Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality. -- Kamil Ali
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow. -- Lena Headey
Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide. -- Candy Lightner
Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality. -- Quentin Crisp
The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart -- Marty Rubin
Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park. -- Michael Jordan
To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable. -- John Kasich
No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. -- Jane Alexander
Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not. -- Ron Kaufman
There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever. -- Vani Hari
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women. -- Ariel Gore
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous. -- Maimonides
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage -- Indian Proverb
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60. -- Robert Genn
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart. -- Plutarch
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. -- Charles Spurgeon
Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. Itâ??s a disease. -- Cameron Diaz
Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans. -- Arthur Balfour
If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable. -- Julianne Malveaux
I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk. -- John Scalzi
There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable -- Jerry Vlasak
I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example. -- Andrew Greeley
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. -- Joseph Heller
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances. -- Sam Horn
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. -- Bill Vaughan
All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins. -- Naomi Mitchison
It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting. -- Magic Johnson
I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable. -- Holland Roden
I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable. -- Eric Andre
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. -- Jodie Foster
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable. -- Alix Kates Shulman
if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. -- Randy Pausch
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. -- Bill Haley
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. -- Benjamin Disraeli
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. -- George Santayana
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals -- Irving Kristol
Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal. -- James Rozoff
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. -- Joseph Glanvill
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious. -- Steve Martin
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor. -- Ovid
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable. -- David Wilkerson
No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God. -- Alexander Whyte
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. -- Ian Hislop
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men. -- Maggie Young

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