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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Inaction is no longer acceptable.
— Eric Lowitt
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
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
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
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
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
It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.
— Vance Havner
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
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
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
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 REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.
— Harold Covington
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
