Quotes About Acceptable

The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn't speak language that's acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.

If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.

An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

The children nodded in agreement, and rose from the table. Leaving their dirty breakfast dishes behind, which is not a good thing to do in general but perfectly acceptable in the face of an emergency.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

My greatest desire was to step over the boundaries of notoriety, into the world of legitimate theater, and I hoped to make the transition on the strength of a satisfying and acceptable performance; not by a constant reference to my past personal life.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

That was part of David Duke's agenda, is to turn the Klan from a racist organization in the eyes of the public into something that is respectable and acceptable.

The only acceptable cravat is the original Croat one.

Violence is never an acceptable outcome in the exercise of free speech.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn't speak language that's acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

I have since, at my wife's insistence, given up nail biting, replacing that disgusting habit with the more socially acceptable coprolalia.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

There's nothing wrong with it. It's just not particularly fabulous.

Music helps us to both articulate & express our emotions in a manner that's publicly acceptable.

Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.