It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow. — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being… — Don Nickles Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
You can't keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think… — John Sarbanes Copy Share Image
Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter,… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. — Pat Buckley Copy Share Image
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women. — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image