Acceptable Quotes
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To me, right there, enough said - Kobe Bryant (third team), not acceptable.
Phil Jackson -
I think it behooves them to find the votes, ... To have a small number of people dictate to this nation what they can do and can't do is just not acceptable.
Dennis Hastert
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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 -
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.
Cenk Uygur -
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
Irwin Shaw -
The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
Rachel Hartman -
No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
Alexander Whyte
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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
Benoit Mandelbrot -
Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
Malik Jackson -
It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.
Lesley Lawson -
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph Heller -
It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.
Joel David Moore -
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.
Amanda Foreman -
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
Rene Dubos -
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.
Michael Shannon -
All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.
Mary Pipher -
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.
Deborah Rhode -
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
Steve Martin
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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.
Kathy Young -
“Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”
Viviane Katrina Louise -
To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical-as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously ... It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.
Wolfgang Pauli -
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.
William V. Shannon