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Quotes About Disapproval

Remarkable as Mar-A-Lago was, the estate had created strains in Marjorie's marriage, which, coupled with her plea to buy the Birdseye company, were leading E.F. to disapprove of his wife's spending habits. When acquaintances expressed their their fascination with his new Palm Beach home, the stockbroker often shrugged cynically. 'You know Marjorie said she was going to built a little cottage by the sea. Look what we got! t h
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
No tienes que hacer nada para caer bien o mal. O te acepta o te tira de lado.
~ Carlos Castaneda
She also wants the freedom to be able to act as she deems appropriate, without fearing or dreading the feedback, the sensing the disapproval and disappointment. Of always letting him down. Of having to check herself. She doesn't want any more cold air between them, but mostly she doesn't like to have to second-guess herself at a job that she knows she's more than capable of doing.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Bubba made a sound of disapproval You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie he said Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.
~ Charlaine Harris
My distaste and disapproval for a member of Martin's family made me feel like a bad Christian and a bad wife. I'd often thought being a Christian meant by definition being a bad one, since nothing is more difficult than Christianity, so I was more or less used to that feeling.
~ Charlaine Harris
though his morals had hardly been applauded, disapproval of them had frequently been tempered with a smile.
~ Thomas Hardy
a born objector, I saw that at once, down on the existing order; and that always gives me the impression that the person is spoilt—I can't help it.
~ Thomas Mann
The immature conscience is one that bases its judgments partly, or even entirely, on the way other people seem to be disposed toward its decisions. The good is what is admired or accepted by the people it lives with. The evil is what irritates or upsets them. Even
~ Thomas Merton
If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you express your opinion that his lifestyle is disgusting and his art, music or writing is crude, shallow, or repugnant, but unless you are free to reach such conclusions, any praise you bestow is hollow and suspect.
~ Thomas Sowell
pas bon, celui-là, maman. Du saumon d'élevage gueule contre cul à bouffer les crottes des autres ».
~ Katherine Pancol
Suck eggs, I thought.
~ Kathy Reichs
Sometimes, of course, your loved ones genuinely think you would be wasting your time and talents doing something of which they disapprove.
~ Ken Robinson
Whatever I thought right seemed bad to others; whatever seemed wrong to me, others approved of. I ran into feuds wherever I found myself, I met disfavor wherever I went; if I longed for happiness, I only stirred up misery; so I had to be called "Woeful": Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walküre
~ Caleb Carr
Whatever I thought right seemed bad to others; whatever seemed wrong to me, others approved of. I ran into feuds wherever I found myself, I met disfavor wherever I went; if I longed for happiness, I only stirred up misery; so I had to be called "Woeful": Woe is all I possess.
~ Caleb Carr
It's better to be hated than it is to be ignored
~ Gayle Forman
You're just begging for a piece of me, you know that?" she growled. "I don't know what gave you the idea I've lowered my standards, but I assure you, I haven't. I want no part of you.
~ Gena Showalter
Oh, now that's not nice ..." Kaldar clicked his tongue.
~ Ilona Andrews
Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off.
~ Iris Murdoch
People who act on their moral courage will always encounter disapproval. To have moral courage is to challenge conformity within our own tribes--be they religious, cultural, ideological or professional--and to do so for a more universal good.
~ Irshad Manji
Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.
~ Isaac Asimov
Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your own business and not be interested anymore.
~ Isaac Asimov
It does not matter much what a man hates, provided he hates something.
~ Samuel Butler
If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.
~ Sonny Bill Williams
I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say. This has the desired effect. After a moment of disbelief, all the disapproval in the room hits me like a ton of bricks.
~ Suzanne Collins