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Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make. — Thomm Quackenbush

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable. — Jack D. Schwager

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

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it. — Ann Aguirre

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

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

Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless. — Jonathan Franzen

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

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

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West. — Najib Razak

Going out on the road as a 14- or 15-year old and playing clubs with 20-year old guys was just not acceptable. — Anne Boleyn

Bluie, the blue stuffed bear I'd had since I was, like, one - back when it was socially acceptable to name one's friends after their hue. — John Green

My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher. — Karen Joy Fowler

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. — E.L. Doctorow

Take accessible to mean / acceptable, accommodating, openly servile. — Geoffrey Hill

Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter. — Steve Aylett

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw

Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white? — Virginia Woolf

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. — Bill O'Reilly

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system. — Herbert Schiller

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

I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself. — Jane Austen

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

All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins. — Naomi Mitchison

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts — Stacia Kane

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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

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

Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins. — Richard Jeni

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there. — Stephen King

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. — William Penn

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

I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands. — Brian Whitaker

I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less. — Alice Waters

Fear is acceptable, as long as I don't allow it to cripple me... — K.M. Shea

Inaction is no longer acceptable. — Eric Lowitt

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. — Ian Hislop

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. — John Of The Cross

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. — Alicia Silverstone

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference. — Nelly

Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ. — Emily P. Freeman

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue. — James Duval

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

The woman he couldn't ethically fuck, he wanted to fuck six ways to Sunday without a single socially acceptable barrier between them. — Elizabeth Finn

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. — Carlisle Floyd

There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time. — Carlos Wallace

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

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness. — David Levithan

I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all. — Tim Berners-Lee

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide. — Candy Lightner

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy

I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now. — Orson Scott Card

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

Authenticity is an "owning" of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable. — Mary Pipher

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

Equity is the only acceptable goal — Paul Farmer

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves. — Ke$ha

I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife. — Caroline Kepnes

We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions. — Steven Kassels

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil. — John Irving

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable. — Yann Martel

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

There are bands of this era that are perfectly acceptable to cry to. — Kasie West

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable. — Milton Sapirstein

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. — Clarence Thomas

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently. — Geoffrey Canada

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. — Vance Havner

She was an expert in the exact amount of condolence which would be acceptable. — Agatha Christie

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

You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe. — Zooey Deschanel

What is the acceptable length of time before you change your life to be with the person you love? A day was all I needed. — Kerry Heavens

What is wrong with being a devout follower? Is it not acceptable to be sad and alone, if you remain loyal and obedient? — S.E. Lindberg

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

Only faith in CHRIST is acceptable to God, because only CHRIST is acceptable to God. — Brian Williams

It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless. — Joel Burns

Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war. — Karen Marie Moning

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

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.' — Ed Stetzer

I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China. — Tsai Ing-wen

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

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. — Antony Gormley

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God. — Alexander Whyte

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. — Dmitriy Ustinov

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. — Hillary Clinton

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect. — Jim Elliot

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

Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily life. — Tina Fey

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

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

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

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA. — Derek Thompson

I'd eat butter with a spoon if it were acceptable. — Rainbow Rowell

It is morally acceptable in life for one to make mistakes; it only enables you to go back to your drawing board and review your steps". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable. — Daniel Tosh

Your silence is not acceptable. — Donna Tartt

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