Acceptable Quotes

528 quotes by 486 authors

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can… — Bil Keane
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for… — Billie Jean King
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not… — Wangari Maathai
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and… — Jena Malone
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to… — Agnes Martin
Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong. — Moby
Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and… — Bill Murray
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly… — Nas
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. — Richard M. Nixon
The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending.… — Grover Norquist
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. — Bill O'Reilly
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is… — Yoko Ono
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a… — Carroll Quigley
You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable. — Fred Rogers
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much… — Jerry Saltz
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive… — Will Self
I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their… — Donna Shalala
I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take… — Julia Sweeney
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is… — Hunter S. Thompson

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