There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

- Peter Buck

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

- Najib Razak

I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.

- Mary Hart

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

- Megan Fox

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

- Harry Mathews

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

- Herman Cain

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

- Geoffrey Canada

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

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

- Fred Rogers

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

- Franz Kafka

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

- Florence Welch

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

- Eva Mendes

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

- E. L. Doctorow

Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.

- Bill Flores

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

- Andrew Greeley

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

- Antony Gormley

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

- Angela Merkel