Top 100 Not Acceptable Quotes
#1. In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances - the notion that it could not be treated with moderation - was a notion largely confined to black people.
Calvin Trillin
#2. In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
Michael Kinsley
#3. It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
Bruno Tonioli
#4. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
Wendy Davis
#5. It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.
David Finkel
#6. It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.
Ke$ha
#7. Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it.
Laurence Overmire
#8. I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages - so many now - and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs. ... Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here ... ?
Jennifer Niven
#9. Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.
Arsene Wenger
#10. Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.
Alicia Silverstone
#11. things may be acceptable to our society however, it is not acceptable to God.
Pam Funke
#12. If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.
Maxine Waters
#13. Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
John Bolton
#14. Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
Pope Francis
#15. Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?
Virginia Woolf
#16. Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#17. I don't think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it's not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype.
Shirley Manson
#19. It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.
Neelie Kroes
#20. For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that - that's not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.
Patrick Leahy
#21. I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.
Izabel Goulart
#22. To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.
[Diary entry, 1971]
Fritz Zwicky
#23. Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.
Ryan Gosling
#24. Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.
Issa Rae
#25. It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#26. Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.
Richard Rogers
#27. I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
Ban Ki-moon
#28. 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
#29. People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.
Lenny Abrahamson
#30. Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.
Dwane Casey
#31. I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.
Jan Brewer
#32. Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Jodie Foster
#33. This initial experience has not lived up to our expectations ... and it is not acceptable. While these problems will require a lot of hard work, the bottom-line conclusion is this HealthCare.gov site is fixable.
Marilyn Tavenner
#34. we are not talking to one another about what changes we're planning or implementing. This is not acceptable.
Gene Kim
#35. In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.
David Blunkett
#36. Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.
Trevor Manuel
#37. If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.
Don Nickles
#38. If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#39. 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
#40. There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#41. It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#42. And I've been dubbed adorable. I am not okay with this. This is not acceptable. Charlotte is so getting fucked from behind tonight so she knows there's nothing adorable about me.
Lauren Blakely
#43. The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
John Edensor Littlewood
#44. If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
Patrick White
#45. Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.
Jodie Foster
#46. I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'
Laura Mvula
#47. Although censorship from others is not acceptable, you practice it every day when you decide with what people you will share what information, otherwise our deepest feelings would be shared with all the wrong people.
D.S. Mixell
#48. You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.
Jenny Slate
#49. There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#50. It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Peter Garrett
#51. Jonathan went back to the foot of the bed and looped the belt back up. I held my legs open with my hands. "Now, first. The original issue. You're mine. When you let someone else get to you, you deny me my ownership. That is not acceptable." He tapped my inner thigh with the belt. "I own you.
C.D. Reiss
#52. Instructions do not just happen; they require explanation. In scientific study, to state that a person (or God) thought them up is not acceptable.
John E. Mayfield
#53. The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
Russell Simmons
#54. It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#55. 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
#56. I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
Lake Bell
#57. I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
Meg Whitman
#58. The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.
Hamid-Reza Assefi
#59. It is acceptable to God when we use our mouths to bring joy, love, and good to others. It is not acceptable to God when we use our mouths to bring hurt and destruction.
Joyce Meyer
#60. Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.
Victoria Aveyard
#61. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?
Richard Dawkins
#62. It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
James L. Buckley
#63. The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Jeff Cooper
#64. I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice,
Illmaculate
#65. You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.
Eli Roth
#66. Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.
David Allen
#67. Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.
Ron Kaufman
#69. How many people have stopped playing guitar, writing poetry, or painting watercolors - activities packed with flow triggers - because these are also activities that do not squarely fit into culturally acceptable responsibility categories like "career" or "children"?
Steven Kotler
#70. I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.
Anita Brookner
#71. I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.
Mark Hamill
#72. Edward, it will take time to find a willing and acceptable match, won't it? Decent men do not hang about at crossroads just waiting for ruined women to take them home.
Victoria Dahl
#73. My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#74. Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent.
Stephenie Meyer
#75. Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#76. Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.
John Logan
#77. The ceiling is not a good limit;
it prevents you from reaching the sky.
The sky is not a favorable limit;
it hinders you from reaching the stars.
The stars are not an acceptable limit;
they impede you from reaching the edge of the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
Seth Godin
#79. I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do.
Anne Boleyn
#80. Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#81. Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.
Harold S. Kushner
#82. Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable
Jose Maria Aznar
#83. The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.
Charles Spurgeon
#84. Social scientists are not universally liked or appreciated, but we are still marginally more acceptable than alcoholics and escaped lunatics.
Kate Fox
#85. The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.
Carrie Preston
#86. 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
#87. Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.
Terry Tempest Williams
#88. Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
And that they may be is the only prayer
Worth praying. May my sacrifice
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
Robert Frost
#89. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.
Peter Cundill
#90. He had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if he waited till he was dressed. This did not surprise him, for he was beginning to realize that he was the creature of a God who appreciated the discomfort of his worshipers.
W. Somerset Maugham
#91. People come to the Bible with expectations that do not fit the Bible, and this clash becomes one main reason, though not the only one, why people do not find the Bible's claims acceptable.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#92. Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It's a disease.
Cameron Diaz
#93. Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.
Virgilia Peterson
#94. If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? ... We are born that way. We don't choose it. So shouldn't it be acceptable, excuse - this is according to the way the left thinks about things.
Rush Limbaugh
#95. Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.
Thomas R. Insel
#96. News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
Rose Macaulay
#97. I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
David Levithan
#98. Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
Margaret Thatcher
#99. I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.
Andrew Lansley
#100. BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!-
BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot!
BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!-
BARBARA: Oh, "forsook" you and the horse you rose in on!
Tracy Letts
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