Acceptable Quotations

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

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

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!

There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.

What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.

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

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.

The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

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

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

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.

God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties - 'collateral damage' - is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity.

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

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

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

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

We're interested in making sure we protect middle- and low-income Utah while stimulating economic development, ... we need to make it acceptable to legislators.

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

work this out and come up with an acceptable resolution.

We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

We reached an agreement on mutually beneficial, mutually acceptable terms that will make it possible to supply Ukraine with the full volume of gas it needs and provide for the transport of Russian gas to Europe.

We have reached an initially acceptable agreement which gives us the possibility to meet the gas needs of Ukraine and the transit of Russian gas to Europe.

We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards.

The process is to stimulate questions of whether we are aiming high enough, ... I want us to accept the idea that acceptable performance should be nothing less than great.

We have issues with rental houses that often change renters as the school year starts, ... We might get one group of students who understand this is not acceptable and get them to start working with the neighbors only to have to start the process over when the new tenants move in.

This proposal is not acceptable to us, ... Pakistan's nuclear program is India-specific, but we are not just worried about Pakistan. We are also concerned about the situation in countries around us.

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

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.

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

The price (of licensed product) needs to be acceptable for the (Russian) population. If it is not acceptable, it is a great advantage for pirates.

We're not doing anything different, but it's being done in a different atmosphere, an environment in which people are acceptable to our message.

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

She said she disliked the fact that presently it's acceptable for women to pursue men. And she said that every day she thanks God that she's alive.

SIL 2 systems are meeting a growing number of safety system requirements in process plants as users are trying to reduce the hazards in their plants to acceptable levels. Many companies have determined that if an operation requires a SIL 3 rating, then it's too hazardous and needs to be redesigned. After working to reduce the risks in their plants to SIL 2 or lower, customers are then looking to optimize their investments in safety related systems with the appropriate level of risk reduction. In these applications, a SIL 2 safety system provides a very cost effective solution.

Significant changes must be made if government-owned and commercial ships are to be recycled in acceptable conditions. In some countries workers can be exposed to an extremely dangerous environment. Poor conditions can lead to significant pollution.

My feeling is we are doing something new here. We are building a collaborative effort that will make a great deal of copyrighted material available in a way that's acceptable to the creators. That is novel.

My focus is we won 79 games. That's a bad year. Anybody who sits in this seat and thinks that's acceptable, that's wrong. The urgency for me is to rectify coming off a bad year. If the White Sox hadn't won, we still have 79 in the win column and that's never going to be acceptable as long as I'm doing it, and we have to try like heck to get it fixed.

Of course it will not be automatic procedure, ... It will be based on concrete and specific requirements by Iraqi authorities, of course. So that is why I feel that we should come to a solution which is acceptable to everybody.

Of course, it's not acceptable to have any problem. We're working to resolve these problems as quickly as possible.

Online usability of financial disclosures is essential for investors to easily stay informed about their investments in public company securities, particularly as companies begin to replace printed reports with Web versions. Yet the vast majority of these mega-cap companies are failing to meet an acceptable usability standard.

More and more urban families are employing children to work in their homes. It is disappointing that these people, who have high levels of education and good incomes, do not recognize this as something that is not acceptable in modern society.

Money damages can get the job done. Beyond that, nothing further needs to be done. Money damages are a completely acceptable solution in this case.

Now that the rules have been changed, it does change the way these events can be put on. It's not as easy and it's not as clear-cut as to what is the acceptable thing to do, so I think people are trying to err on the side of extreme caution.

Now that it is clear that, in the current regulatory environment, a merger with another major music company cannot be pursued at acceptable cost and risk, we will proceed as an independent, music-focused group.

Now you have to shoulder your responsibility to pave the way for a peaceful political future for your nation - a way which reflects your society's diversity and traditions and which will be acceptable to all Afghans. It is up to you the representatives of the Afghan people to seize this historic moment, ... Germany, the EU (European Union) and the international community led by the United Nations stand ready to help now and in long term.

Obviously we are disappointed that we were unable to reach an acceptable solution through the course of mediation in the past two days,

Nobody wants to be called the No Fun League. But we also don't want it to be ridiculous. We have to balance in here that kids do emulate what our players do. What we deem to be acceptable is not acceptable on other levels, like high school and college.

No government has an option but to have medically acceptable benchmarks, at least in those priority areas,

Peugeot, which used to be lukewarm in China, is gearing up now. Peugeot may record faster sales growth as its unique exterior designs are becoming more acceptable to Chinese consumers along with rising car penetration rate.

Only by showing attention and understanding to the concerns of all parties can the solutions acceptable to all parties come out as early as possible,

Next year, nothing is going to be acceptable unless you make it to the (district) final again and win it. These kids have been here now.

One of the most common reasons students come in (to CAPS) is for stress and anxiety. There's this myth on campus that we only deal with very serious issues, but that's not really true. It's perfectly common and acceptable for students to come in with issues like becoming overwhelmed with stress.

I was raised with the idea that the word hate is extremely strong. So it might be OK to hate Adolf Hitler. It's OK to hate Satan. These are acceptable figures to whom the word hate can apply. I would proudly wear the badge of hater of many of Bush's policies. But the man? I don't like him, but hate him?

I would give a sentence much greater than this and this is conduct that is not acceptable in society, this conduct she keeps committing,

I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.

I grew up playing video games, and I continue to play them. My wife doesn't play that often, but my daughters do. Playing games has become more acceptable and I think that is only going to continue.

If we're not here, we're saying what happened is acceptable and normal and I think that does a disservice to other police, ... We Shall Overcome.

If we hold the line, Northwest will have to come back to the table and provide a contract that is acceptable to our members.

If this was a man that found Adolf Hitler to be a glorified and acceptable and a desirable character, I sure want to know it as a Californian because I don't want that man as my governor,

If we can start to say that's not acceptable in town, we can change that culture.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

Certainly in Europe, I don't think that would be acceptable to our electorates. I think our electorates would much prefer us to say, well, we'll do what we can to ensure that at least on our part the protocol is ratified by the time of the conference on sustainable development in 2002,

CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report,

Businesses or factories where we cannot restore profitability to an acceptable level will be closed or sold.

But as your family grows and your considerations change, I think you would find it's certainly acceptable to arrive a few hours later, or even a day later.

But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.

I feel sorry if Muslims feel offended and that was not the intention. But the cartoons were within the acceptable boundaries of free speech in Denmark.

I can't imagine that we would pass any bill that would tolerate slipping back into a level of intolerance that would be acceptable in today's society,

I can't live in a community where it is perfectly acceptable to murder an innocent man and still walk around freely.

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

Given the fact we're a public agency, we don't find it acceptable to have a loss at all. Our violation system now should serve as a deterrent.

Given that the accuracy and reliability of the call is our primary goal on this, we will move forward only when an acceptable system is identified.

Girls from the neighborhood who are 10 to 11 are great mother's helpers, and using them makes for great babysitter training. They learn your children's behaviors and personalities under your supervision, so they learn what is acceptable and how discipline is handled.

From our perspective, he's done a yeoman's job of bringing a very attractive and a very acceptable and large number of people each week. The thing about George that distinguishes him from almost every other star we work with is that he has literally been involved with every single stage of development and execution of the series.

From 1980 on, we've spent every nickel and dime of natural resource revenue and that's not an acceptable go-forward strategy.

If an offer comes in that's acceptable to the club and to me as manager then we'll have to look at that, but at the moment we haven't had any bids for Rob.

For this to happen, it is essential to find a just solution to the problems of Jammu-Kashmir acceptable to Pakistan, India and, above all, the people of Kashmir.

If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

If it was verifiable in acceptable medical literature from multiple sources, that was kind of a litmus test.

If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.