Quotes About Acceptable

#1. When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.

Sarah Sundin

#2. We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

Peter Buck

#3. I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

Carlisle Floyd

#4. The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Amitabh Bachchan

#5. SOUNDS GROSS," he said. "SALAZAR PREFERS WOOD. TAPESTRIES ARE ALSO ACCEPTABLE.

Mirriam Neal

#6. I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#7. Let us not forget the obligation which rests upon us to render allegiance and service to the Lord, and that acceptable service to Him cannot be rendered without service to our fellow man.

Heber J. Grant

#8. I'd eat butter with a spoon if it were acceptable.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

Edward R. Murrow

#10. Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

#11. Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

Nevada Barr

#12. What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

John Stott

#14. She was an expert in the exact amount of condolence which would be acceptable.

Agatha Christie

#15. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Pope John Paul II

#16. Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Yoko Ono

#17. I'll just be another human on a planet full of humans, but better equipped because I have demands.
For my family.
For my life.
For the world.
For myself.
What acceptable behay-vyah.
What acceptable behay-vyah

A.S. King

#18. 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

#19. Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

#20. In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

Leonard Nimoy

#21. From a single glance it was clear that he was fearless, unchained and unfettered by the confines of what society deemed acceptable; Hayden embodied everything I wasn't but wanted to be.

Helena Hunting

#22. God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].

Thomas Brooks

#23. A person is "too conservative" if his conscience forbids something that I think is acceptable.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#24. Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.

John Irving

#25. All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Ingrid Newkirk

#26. Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.

Howard Thompson

#27. Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.

Clive Barker

#28. If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

Martha McSally

#29. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow

#30. People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#31. 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

#32. A WORD TO THE WISE
Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
never get caught in its snare.
Remember, the only acceptable case
for being in any particular place
is having no business there.

Piet Hein

#33. Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

Henry Petroski

#34. I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

Taylor Hicks

#35. Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Ha-Joon Chang

#36. The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#37. most modern degrees and certifications demonstrate that you have passed some tests to demonstrate acceptable grasp of generic information. Big whoop. You can do better.

M.F. Stone

#38. 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

#39. One speaks of acceptable risks, the question is always acceptable to whom?

Stephen King

#40. Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

Najib Razak

#41. Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

Ovid

#42. If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

William Randolph Hearst

#43. I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

Joe Mantello

#44. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#45. For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

Magic Johnson

#46. We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Jason Alexander

#47. 3 Doing what is righteous and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Anonymous

#48. The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.

Ulysses S. Grant

#49. Nostalgia is the only acceptable form of sadness.

Will Advise

#50. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.

Nalini Singh

#51. If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Patrick White

#52. 20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society.

Marian Keyes

#53. My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.

Karen Joy Fowler

#54. In today's time, no other 'charity' is acceptable or practical than the 'wisdom' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success.

Deep Trivedi

#55. Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

Edward Luck

#56. We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

Germaine Greer

#57. I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

Clarence Thomas

#58. To be acceptable, it seems, a project must often be billed as a pure replica of a successful venture in an advanced country.

Albert O. Hirschman

#59. Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

Jean Baudrillard

#60. I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

Matt Ross

#61. There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

Katharine Whitehorn

#62. Anger becomes an acceptable substitute for fear, which is forbidden.

Brene Brown

#63. Is a blowjob acceptable payment for a tire change or does the headboard need to rock?

Kristen Ashley

#64. At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days.

Dave Eggers

#65. You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

John H. Vandenberg

#66. When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.

William Bateson

#67. Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

Sam Horn

#68. I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

Herman Cain

#69. Being a good person is partially subjective, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It's whatever we deem acceptable, whatever we find ourselves worthy of.

Kim Holden

#70. Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we identify with a socially acceptable idea of self.

Jeff Brown

#71. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

Marilynne Robinson

#72. Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Jodie Foster

#73. The acceptable grieving period for the loss of my marriage and all the things it meant for my life had expired. The rest of the world had moved on. I was supposed to, too.

Christina Lauren

#74. I'm sworn to uphold his laws. Saying that you killed someone because they annoyed you isn't codified as acceptable, by those laws, anywhere I'm aware of."
"You are clearly not looking carefully enough.

Michelle Sagara West

#75. It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.

Joel Burns

#76. The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

Daniel Webster

#77. I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.

Brendan Gleeson

#78. So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Robert Sheckley

#79. Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

Steve Aylett

#80. What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

Casey Affleck

#81. Except for Carrie Bradshaw's in the opening credits of 'Sex and the City,' I don't know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.

Devin Kelley

#82. It is no longer acceptable to simply assert your moral beliefs; you have to provide reasons for them, and those reasons had better be grounded in rational arguments and empirical evidence or else they will likely be ignored or rejected.

Michael Shermer

#83. Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

Eban Goodstein

#84. Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

#85. To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Colette

#86. I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.

Steve Huffman

#87. When society believes that an eye for an eye is acceptable, eventually everyone will go blind." At

Bella Forrest

#88. I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them ... they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

John Irving

#89. Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.

Jonathan Franzen

#90. Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

Alix Kates Shulman

#91. When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable. But when our inclination is to spend time daydreaming over what we have already been told to do, it is unacceptable and God's blessing is never on it.

Oswald Chambers

#92. A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Eyvind Johnson

#93. We have books and films where mice and hobbits and dwarves and children can save the world, and that's perfectly acceptable. But a 120lb woman save the galaxy? YOU GO TOO FAR, SIR.

Ash Gray

#94. You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students and professors that help make the science an acceptable world-wide movement.

A.E. Samaan

#95. In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.

Lakshmi

#96. Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

Paulo Coelho

#97. I mean if there are going to be missiles that are going off and there are going to be going off over Canadian airspace whether we want it or not, no I don't think that is acceptable. I think that we want to be at the table.

Paul Martin

#98. Every good deed is acceptable goodness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. A person that knows the acceptable times always controls situations.

Sunday Adelaja

#100. The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos ...

Katherine Paterson