Top 98 Palatable Quotes
#1. It's easier to construct a more palatable life story-where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced-than to face the raw truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
#2. All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
Larry Cohen
#3. If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.
Bill Maher
#4. Good use of time is the universal ingredient in cooking a palatable dish - doesn't matter if you are baking, boiling, frying, brewing, or grilling.
Pawan Mishra
#5. The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
Ludwig Von Mises
#6. I had gotten a taste for death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization.
Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
#7. A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But with Funny Or Die we thought we could put an interesting take on it. Make it a little more palatable, especially for young people who tune into the website.
Alexander Skarsgard
#8. WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; ... also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
Ambrose Bierce
#9. I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
Jarvis Cocker
#11. The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting ... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
Adam Driver
#13. So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.
Anthony Michael Hall
#14. Her fear was palatable: she tasted it, her pores oozed it, her hair tingled. Why
Allison Brennan
#15. Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.
Bryan R. Dennis
#16. When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
#17. Things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.
Catherine Opie
#18. As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in the eye.
Daniel Pfeiffer
#19. I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#20. Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#21. We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
Agnes Repplier
#22. Reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.
J.G. Ballard
#23. The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
James Gray
#24. The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.
David A. Heenan
#26. No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.
Joshua Prager
#27. Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#28. Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
Jasper Fforde
#29. Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.
Greta Gerwig
#30. Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write." (p.136)
Mark David Gerson
#31. The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.
Groucho Marx
#32. Nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#33. Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable.
William Strunk Jr.
#34. If you love a person in the real sense, you want them to be happy, not take them like butter and spread them thinly over your own bread, to make it more palatable for yourself.
Nella Last
#35. I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.
Adam Brody
#36. BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
Ambrose Bierce
#37. There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#39. Reality was a makeshift prop, an amalgamation of agreed-upon conjecture, a consensus of self-limiting parameters and paradigms made palatable by endless speculation fueled by madness and hope and no mean amount of good dope.
Laird Barron
#40. The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable.
Howie Mandel
#41. Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable ... he needs you to be faithful.
Matt Chandler
#42. Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.
Joe Manchin
#43. Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
Lynn Shelton
#44. Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat lacking in imagination. But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here.
Suzanne Collins
#47. The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
Stephen Kinzer
#49. Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.
Louis Kronenberger
#50. Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.
Ferdie Pacheco
#51. God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.
Francis Chan
#52. Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
Terrence Howard
#53. Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
Jen Lancaster
#54. I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
Don Ellis
#55. At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.
Ferdie Pacheco
#56. Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
C.D. Payne
#57. I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.
Lynn Coady
#58. Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.
Michael Che
#59. It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.
Eliza Acton
#60. He had just been palatable, like ketchup. Ketchup had its merits. But no one would ever fill a bowl with that stuff.
Bella Forrest
#61. A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.
Anuj
#62. Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
James Boswell
#63. So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.
Richard Rogers
#64. No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
T. S. Eliot
#65. He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.
Swami Vivekananda
#66. The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.
Leonard Mlodinow
#67. Jack Stepney had once said of Miss Van Osburgh that she was as reliable as roast mutton. His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
Edith Wharton
#68. For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.
Mitchell Zuckoff
#69. Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
Fran Lebowitz
#70. Palatable. Easier to overlook. Forgotten, or at least smoothed into some pearl-like blandness, if not a thing of beauty.
Cherie Priest
#71. That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it in an even more palatable way - the way we would have liked things to have been, rather than the way they really are.
Peter James
#72. The "virtue" of Keynes's teaching is that it praised thriftlessness, reckless spending, and unbalanced budgets and was therefore extremely palatable to the politicians in power.
Henry Hazlitt
#73. My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
Alan Rickman
#74. An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness
much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.
E. M. Forster
#75. With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.
Joe Sacco
#76. Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
Tom Clancy
#77. The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
Germaine Greer
#78. You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
Thomas Szasz
#80. Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called the coolest Osmond.
Sarah Vowell
#81. The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born.
Ingmar Bergman
#82. Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.
Dale Carnegie
#83. The curious alchemy of cookery, that process of making the transfer of life from one being to another palatable.
Diana Gabaldon
#84. This is the left hemisphere confabulating. It does this for all of us, every waking moment. It edits our conscious experiences, makes them comprehensible and palatable. It's the brain's spin-doctor.
Paul Broks
#85. Daddy had a strict rule about firearms. Anything we killed we had to eat. No amount of barbecue sauce would make a hairy guy like you palatable.
Diane Kelly
#86. There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
Brander Matthews
#87. If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.
David Wolfe
#88. Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
Lauren Oliver
#89. I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
Bo Burnham
#90. Bland, good as a side dish, but really only palatable when there is nothing better available.
Gail Carriger
#91. Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#92. If only you
could see me as the Devil does:
palatable & raw;
chasing a chance blue moon
Virginia Petrucci
#93. Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.
Taraji P. Henson
#94. I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.
Chris Stapleton
#95. Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.
Ambrose Bierce
#96. It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.
Jonathan Ive
#97. If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne. And at this level of experience one's bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.
James Baldwin
#98. The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
Winston Churchill
