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Quotes About Disapproval

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.
~ Kirsten Dunst
Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.
~ Shonda Rhimes
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
~ Adam Mansbach
Estamos tan ciegos que, mientras el mundo nos observa y da muestras de desaprobación, no somos capaces de visualizar la gran brecha existente entre nuestras palabras y nuestro proceder en la vida cotidiana.
~ Peter Scazzero
People certainly do not want anyone to bring God into the discussion. They talk about the separation of church and state, but often what they mean is the separation of God from daily life. What business does God have telling us what to do, anyway? If people believe in God at all, they like to think of him as a kind of cosmic Santa Claus who is there to do nice things for people, not disapprove of what we are doing.
~ Philip Graham Ryken
Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.
~ Philip Kerr
The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.
~ Philip Reeve
Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.
~ Pierre Bourdieu
We are so vocal about what we hate.
~ Josh Radnor
People are going to like what they like, and they're going to be vocal about what they don't like.
~ Ricochet
I calculated the possible responses. 52 percent probable: She'd nod knowingly, tap her pen against her pad, and make some vaguely disapproving noise. 46 percent: She'd nod knowingly, tap her pen against her pad, and make some vaguely approving noise. 2 percent: She'd nod knowingly, tap her pen against her pad, and howl like a coyote. I attributed that last possibility to a bug in my calculations.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Phooey, I say, and again phooey!
~ Adolf Hitler
In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.
~ Yvette Mimieux
I don't recall the beginning of what you said, and consequently I also don't grasp the middle sections, while the part at the end I don't approve of.
~ Plutarch
Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
~ Rudolf Bing
My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.
~ David Jason
My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.
~ Peter Beard
I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
~ Laura Benanti
Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!
~ Mike Patton
Nate Diaz sucks.
~ Ben Askren
Kimbo Slice sucks. He's terrible.
~ Dana White
On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to her that I was to go to a drama college.
~ Eileen Atkins