Quotes About Disapproval

No one likes to be criticized.

I get criticized for anything I do.

I have always been against coups, and I cursed them.

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. 'It's barely noon,' said Nathan. 'I know,' said Adrian. 'I'm surprised I held out that long too.

Just about everything a Nice Guy does is consciously or unconsciously calculated to gain someone's approval or to avoid disapproval.

Her toenails were painted. It didn't help much. Never saw a toenail I liked.

The woman looked at me as if I had proposed sodomy.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

her tone more disapproving than dismayed.

Al brought his attention back down from the ceiling. "You really don't want to have sex with him? Why? What's wrong with him?

He disliked this girl and her boy-friend so much that he couldn't understand why they didn't dislike each other.

Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.

The Christian cliché "love the sinner, hate the sin" is problematic because it is always long on judgment and short on love. People sense that deeply; they understand when a relationship is fundamentally unsafe, precariously balanced on a scale of disapproval.

Disapproval flashed across John's face. I wondered whether no one was supposed to touch me while he was in uniform, either.

Even now he felt the whiff of his father's disapproval—for having overreached, or become a celebrity (and thereby a target), or failed to heed his father's lectures (delivered liberally to this day from the helm of a small motorboat his father used to fish along the Florida coast), whose refrain, to Bix's ears, was: Think small or get hurt.

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Pooh, cats!' said Lotta scornfully.

Sunt furios c? m-am împotmolit într-o împieliÈ›at? de filozofie pe care spiritul meu nu se poate împiedica s? n-o aprobe, iar inima s-o nege.

Some papers were taken aback by Coolidge's sudden fame. The New York Times resented the fact that a policy it admired had been promulgated by a figure unfamiliar to its editors.

My grandfather is my biggest fashion critic. He takes a keen interest in the millennial fashion, most of which he disapproves of, but he is a very practical fashion critic.

In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

As everyone knows, I have never been a fan of George Bush's presidency.

I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.