Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Hoon

After careful evaluation, the chiefs of staff have advised me that UK forces are able to undertake the proposed operation, that there is a compelling military operational justification for doing so and that it entails a militarily acceptable level of risk for UK forces,

Storage as an option is more acceptable than disposal for the time-being.

Subject to acceptable resolution of outstanding issues and satisfactory finalization of contractual language, the UAW GM National Negotiating Committee, the UAW National GM Council, and the UAW Retired Workers Advisory Council have unanimously endorsed this tentative agreement,

Andy Goldsworthy

Breaking stone with a hammer is a familiar and acceptable way of working the material, but is in fact a more violent response than firing.

This could be just about Oracle buying an installed base they can sell more software and services to. But I don't know if the open-source community feels comfortable being purchased, or if they see Oracle as an acceptable custodian of the code base they have contributed to.

Harry Reid

This bill is not acceptable in its current form. It's not even close.

This is acceptable to both parties and was the result of constructive dialog between Intel and the FTC,

Carrie Preston

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.

Thom Browne

While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more an effort to find a way to look good in their own individual, but natural way. I think it's a shame that it's become acceptable to wear jeans and a T-shirt to any place and function.

put forward proposals and ideas so that we will be able to work out an implementation plan that is acceptable to all sides at an early date.

Les Moonves

Radio -- which has extremely valuable assets -- is our one segment that is not yet achieving acceptable growth. We have implemented a number of recent initiatives to change that, including the new Jack and Spanish formats which have shown good success. And we believe this week's announcement to add a powerful new morning show will greatly improve the performance of our drive-time programming in the nation's largest east-coast markets.

The simplest (solution) would be (for PAISD trustees) to follow acceptable board actions and procedures.

The temperature got way out of the acceptable range.

The tax mechanism in the last basic agreement would not be acceptable to us this time around.

Michael Josephson

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

They have spent more time trying to make it okay for you to go to McDonald's with your friends because they ran into a branding problem where it kind of wasn't socially acceptable for older kids.

There's a very good chance that the trials being conducted by Merck will be acceptable, or acceptable pending positive results.

If I cried it's probably crocodile tears. It's hard to see, with an extremist piece of legislation like that, how anything acceptable could result.

Jerry Jones

The meeting was short, concise and unanimous. We're all on the same page. The position that's on the table by the players is just not acceptable, and it wasn't acceptable to any of the constituents.

Joanna Lumley

The idea of getting married just to make it socially acceptable and then maybe getting divorced later on seems a creepy way to behave.

The heights are Donald Trump size - huge buildings. There is a real serious issue whether that's an acceptable paradigm for what high-rise development should be on the East Side.

The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don't seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome.

John Breaux

Airlines were interested in the bottom line. They want to hire the people to do the security who could do it as cheap as possible. And that's why they gave it to the low bidder, ... It was acceptable because we never had problems with that arrangement. After September 11th everything has dramatically changed.

The idea that tobacco use is normal and that it is socially acceptable because respected adults and others do it encourages kids to pick up the habit. Tobacco-free school policies are helping change the perception that smoking and chew are okay.

The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we just need to work on the idea that, even out of adolescence, that it's okay to still play.

And let's not make any mistake, or gloss over that fact: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. Not only are we the group most at risk of violence, we are most at risk of job discrimination, losing our families; homophobia retains its title as the last socially acceptable form of bigotry.

And that's acceptable to us. In a perfect world, we'd like to see the original House version.

All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.

Jon Lee

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The draft common document presented by China host is acceptable to all parties.

The effect was overnight. Traditionally in the marketing world, it takes weeks or even months to generate acceptable awareness and traffic. Here we saw traffic spike overnight.

Rachel Cohn

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

Adoniram Judson

The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.