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I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of. (Quote by - Brother Lawrence)

To me, nothing short of total dismissal is acceptable for this lady. (Quote by - Patrick Perger)

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. (Quote by - Pat Buckley)

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. (Quote by - Jay Lipe)

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it`s not acceptable. (Quote by - Jodie Foster)

That which is sung intuitively is acceptable; without this intuition, all chanting is useless. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

Do we think that when the day has been idly spent and squandered away by us, we shall be fit to work when the night and darkness come -- when our understanding is weak, and our memory frail, and our will crooked, and by long custom of sinning obstinately bent the wrong way, what can we then do in religion? What reasonable or acceptable service can we then perform to God? When our candle is just sinking into the socket, how shall our light so shine before men that they may see our good works?... I will not pronounce anything concerning the impossibility of a death-bed repentance, but I am sure that it is very difficult, and, I believe, very rare. (Quote by - Tillotson, John)

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God. (Quote by - Brother Lawrence)

It`s funny because I`m strongly opposed to the death penalty, and I don`t believe in `acceptable losses`. It`s complicated for me to play this character, because, unlike a film, I don`t know the end but I want a situation to arise within the show where he. (Quote by - Kiefer Sutherland)

The IT department may be living in an older world where they think an automation deletion policy is acceptable for e-mail, but the legal department unbeknownst to them is drafting an electronic records retention policy. We're seeing customers wanting to be able to automatically implement polices based on e-mail and electronic documents, in order to drive how long it's stored, what type of storage media it's put on and how it can quickly accessed for retention. (Quote by - Nick Mehta)

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable. (Quote by - Don Nickles)

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. (Quote by - E. L. Doctorow)

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. (Quote by - Richard Carlson)

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society. (Quote by - Marilyn Manson)

What we're hoping is that this will allow it to be acceptable for someone who doesn't want to be impacted by smoke to say, 'would you mind putting that out?' knowing that they have the force of law behind them. (Quote by - Barry Groveman)

Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955 No creature can be a child of God but because the goodness of God is in it; nor can it have any union or communion with the goodness of the Deity till its life is the Spirit of Love. This is the one only band of union betwixt God and the creature... Here the necessity is absolute; nothing will do instead of this will; all contrivances of holiness, all forms of religious piety, signify nothing without this will to all goodness. For as the will to all goodness is the whole nature of God, so it must be the whole nature of every service of religion that can be acceptable to him. (Quote by - Law, William)

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind. (Quote by - Jean Henri Fabre)

What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices. (Quote by - Pamela Anderson)

We have ... told them that the decision that was taken was not acceptable and would not meet international standards. (Quote by - Jose Aranaz)

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. (Quote by - Pamela Hansford Johnson)

The bottom line is, our graduation rates are not acceptable. Once you're behind, the intervention needs to be pretty immediate. (Quote by - Peter Daniels)

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff. (Quote by - Peter Buck)

I don`t sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it`s getting worse. (Quote by - I don`t see any purpose in trying to stretch something out that was once acceptable and that now is merely adequate, if that. I don`t know what the reason. (Quote by - Bing Crosby)

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