Acceptable Quotes

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Equity is the only acceptable goal

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what's acceptable on the Left

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.

To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

All the stereotypical ‘dude’ geeky things I like are socially acceptable, and all the stereotypical ‘lady’ geeky things I like are frowned upon….

The only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.'" "What about 'More, Gareth'?" "He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable.

Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.