If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done. '
There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.
Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.
I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
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 parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on large corporations-who have even larger lawyers-is rare.
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
Before Obamacare you had a lot of people that were very, very happy with their health care. And now those people in many cases don't even have health care. They don't even have anything that's acceptable to them.
It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.