#acceptable

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

— Jane Alexander

#art #conception #everybody #going

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. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#connection #conscription #dates #except #existence

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#only #sainthood #saints

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive. ↗

— Ingrid Newkirk

#being #human #inclusive #makes #more

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#guard #hurdles #important #important roles #increasingly

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#get #i #kill #lives #morally

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#audience #cinema #group #little #make

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#right #socially #soon #too #unacceptable

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#am #beyond #case #far #goes