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Quotes About Disapproval

Go fuck yourself," she said. Win rose. "Undeniably a better option than present company.
~ Harlan Coben
Kat held back the sigh but allowed herself the eye roll.
~ Harlan Coben
Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
~ Penelope Spheeris
We are turn out to be disliked by many, if we tell the truth.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
He lowered his eyebrows with disapproval as he took the phone. CeeCee's aunt Prudence suffers from delusions. Right, I muttered. Doctors. Everyone's got a disorder. Counselors, he shot back. Everyone needs therapy.
~ Meg Cabot
It is totally unfair that Lucy should not only have a cool boyfriend but a boyfriend our parents can't stand, something I have been praying for my entire life, practically.
~ Meg Cabot
I am not the sort of woman of whom Marie Corelli would approve.
~ Mercedes Lackey
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.
~ Mervyn Peake
I hated his religion and its cold disapproving gaze, its malevolence that cloaked itself in pretended kindness, and its allegiance to a god who would drain the joy from the world by naming it sin
~ Bernard Cornwell
It then became intolerable that while I was not in any way interested in the world's affairs the world should have decided to interfere so spectacularly in mine. […] I am tired of offering my services as a smokescreen when there is a good chance of my being dismembered in the process and when I don't approve of what's being screened anyhow.
~ Bernard Wolfe
What a shitbucket.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
You are learning to trust your own perception of reality. You will discover that even when your parents don't agree with you or don't approve of what you're doing, you will be able to tolerate the anxiety because you don't need their validation anymore. You are becoming self-defined.
~ Susan Forward
What? Are you on crack? I did no such thing.
~ Susan Mallery
Mrs. Smith looked confused. She looked to Mrs. Nelson, who pleasantly but determinedly attempted to stare down Ellery. Ellery wasn't having any of it. He stared back. Mrs. Nelson was not to be outdone. She beetled her brows in disapproval. Ellery delivered the coup de grâce and arched one eyebrow. Defeated, Mrs. Nelson slumped back in her chair.
~ Josh Lanyon
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
~ Joyce Maynard
Anthony glared at his brother, then for good measure at Miss Sheffield, who was looking at him as if he'd just despoiled ten virgins in her presence.
~ Julia Quinn
You disapprove of everything about me." He stepped toward her, his hand tightening on her arm. "That is so far from the truth as to be laughable.
~ Julia Quinn
Circuses and carnivals used to be considered the work of the Devil in the 19th century, when shows traveled in wagons and disapproving clergymen had real power.
~ Blanche Barton
Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
~ Harold Bloom
Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.
~ Harper Lee
enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.
~ Harper Lee
To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, however, Alexandra was the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was a disapprover; she was an incurable gossip.
~ Harper Lee
Snorting with disgust, Meta stamped out.
~ Harry Harrison
You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry.
~ Haruki Murakami