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Quotes About Disapproval

If I were American, I'd vote everything but Hillary Clinton.
~ Marine Le Pen
But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings.
~ George MacDonald
discountenanced
~ George Orwell
To start with, I know that the General didn't get on with his son, but seemed to prefer his nephew; I know that he disapproved violently of Miss de Silva, and behaved towards her with unparalleled cruelty. How much? interrupted Dinah. Harding replied with perfect gravity: No absinthe, no shower in her bathroom... Did she tell you all that? said Dinah. Don't you think she's rather good value? Yes, but she wastes my time.
~ Georgette Heyer
For himself, Sir Waldo was resigned to an evening's boredom, denied even the amusement of pursuing his acquaintance with the lady who disapproved of him.
~ Georgette Heyer
That is a wonderful state of affairs for kleptocrats. Waving a red or blue flag, they hold on to camps of ardent loyalists while betraying them to serve the network instead. Most Americans disapprove of policies that benefit the superrich at everyone else's expense. Both parties pursue such policies. We find reasons to vote our colors anyway, or opt out of the conversation.
~ Sarah Chayes
What the hell war isn't unpopular?
~ Scott Eyman
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
~ Seamus Heaney
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
~ Mark Twain
I said, Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;
~ Mark Twain
All men speak in bitter disapproval of the Devil, but they do it reverently, not flippantly; but Father Adolf's way was very different; he called him by every name he could lay his tongue to, and it made everyone shudder that heard him; and often he would even speak of him scornfully and scoffingly; then the people crossed themselves and went quickly out of his presence, fearing that something fearful might happen.
~ Mark Twain
Don't ask him for help," Mama pointed out. "That Saukerl." Papa was staring out the window, as was often his habit. "He left school in fourth grade." Without turning around, Papa answered calmly, but with venom, "Well, don't ask her, either." He dropped some ash outside. "She left school in third grade.
~ Markus Zusak
The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.
~ Martin Amis
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
~ Stella Gibbons
she hated everything her parents loved
~ Stephen Chbosky
Even today I'm not above writing slightly more sophisticated versions of [I Was a Teenage Graverobber]; I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin, that's all. If you disapprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have.
~ Stephen King
I don't want to have to feel the weight of my mother's carefully disguised disapproval, of my father's cheerful determination that it's all okay, everything is just fine, as if saying it enough times will actually make it okay.
~ Jojo Moyes
This guy's a drag." I spoke under my breath. "He sure is." "Know what I suggest?" "Yep. And the answer's no. I'm not going to kill him." "Oh, you're no fun.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
~ Epicurus
We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.
~ Eric Cantor
conservatory, grabbed the bouquet and took it out to the garden. She threw it on the ground and stamped
~ Erica James
No!" Jimmy protested.
~ Ben Elton
A wave of criticism followed,
~ Ben S. Bernanke