Top 1048 Acceptable Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.
If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.
What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.
Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable
When you've left your children and their mother unable to pay for the roof over their head, it's not acceptable.
There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
I don't think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off - that wouldn't be acceptable.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."
Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?
Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.
In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.
if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.
We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.
Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.
In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.
Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.
If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.
Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.
Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.
I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.
We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
