Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Why should a deal breaker for you be an acceptable compromise for me?” — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not. — John Stott Copy Share Image
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put… — Kathy Young Copy Share Image
France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
It's cool that we got rid of that, but we got rid of everything - the encouraging pat on the back or… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
If you go with what Hillary [Clinton] is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the… — Joni Rodgers 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
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as… — Edzard Ernst Copy Share Image
Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Criminal’ pompousness will not do; ‘civil’ pompousness is acceptable.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. — Todd Barry Copy Share Image