A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

This is the trouble with cheating: there are no acceptable rules, or laws. It could be a smile, or dancing to a song that you considered to be indefinably 'ours'. It can feel like cheating to go to a restaurant that you used to go to with someone else. Keeping photographs of exes can infuriate, like retrospective cheating.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The only acceptable cravat is the original Croat one.

Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas

'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.

Adam Clayton
Adam Clayton

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Adam Kinzinger
Adam Kinzinger

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

Adoniram Judson
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.

Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin

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.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner
Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Akhmad Kadyrov
Akhmad Kadyrov

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.