#acceptable

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#approach #considered #culture #i #may

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#easier #fame #gracefully #growing #growing old

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#acceptable #certain #congenial #found #i

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#liberation #murder #terrorism #those #unacceptable

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#absolutely #absolutely not #acceptable #anything #argue

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#california #children #conditions #deplorable #desert

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

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#always #find #hammer #hit #i

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 do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#doing #find #give #life #like

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. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#degree #mitigate #much #never #possible

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror. ↗

— Richard Perle

#citizens #fellow #fellow citizens #greatest #lax