I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of…

“Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.”

— David Levithan

“I’d like to ask those who favor this position if they would be willing to go to Littleton and explain to some mothers what…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Ultimately, we want the most highly beneficial alternative but within acceptable risk levels.”

— Kim Wilkerson

In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing…

— William Kristol

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured…

— Sally Struthers

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…

— Richard Dawkins

The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays…

— William Howard Taft

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

— Elfriede Jelinek

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

— Harold Covington

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a…

— Ted Lieu

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues…

— Alan Cumming

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it…

— Rashida Jones

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler