Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent… — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine. — Kim Swift Copy Share Image
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has… — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish… — Izabel Goulart Copy Share Image
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole… — Alex North Copy Share Image
Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. — John Milton Copy Share Image
[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year,… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and… — Adam Kinzinger 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
I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image