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

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
Constance Baker Motley

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Jason Alexander

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
Jerry Falwell

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.
Peter Buck

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

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.
Robbie Fowler

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow

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