The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The idea of the Overton Window is that there`s a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
“Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such… — Gabor Peter Copy Share Image
Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable.… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
