Quotes About Approval

While the opinions of others may drag us down, the God who created us has an entirely different opinion of who we are.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

We want to choose one but to be chosen by all.

Everything looks good when everybody loves you.

Cambridge will probably never get round to formally approving homosexuality, but the type of homosexual involved perhaps prefers a blind eye

in those days I construed absence of explicit opposition as a whole-hearted endorsement.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate. (on the birth of his granddaughter)

because we must please her, you know?

He was nice in the carriage. I didn't know he knew how to be nice.' That makes me laugh. At the door to my chambers, she puts her hand on my arm. 'He was trying to impress you, you know. Talking to me.' I frown. 'I think he just wanted to hear about weird candy.' She shakes her head. 'He wants you to like him. But just because he wants you to doesn't mean you should.

We women never care about anything that no one else will take.

She was a far better mother when she had an audience.

That's how she finally made herself fall back to sleep: by remembering all the glorious moments, one after the other after the other, her children's ecstatic faces looking for their parents in the stands, looking for their approval, looking for their love, knowing it was there, knowing—she hoped they knew this—that it would always be there, even long after she and Stan were gone, because love like that was infinite.

remembering all the glorious moments, one after the other after the other, her children's ecstatic faces looking for their parents in the stands, looking for their approval, looking for their love, knowing it was there, knowing—she hoped they knew this—that it would always be there, even long after she and Stan were gone, because love like that was infinite.

both responded like thirsty plants to water when it came to parental approval.

she couldn't stand to look up another profile on that awful internet dating site and find another middle-aged, bald, chubby man staring smugly at her out of the computer screen, demanding a 'slim lady who takes care of herself, for snuggles and long walks along the beach'. Yes, she wanted this child to love her and approve of her and save her from snuggles with chubby, smug men.

Now I get it why you're so popular. You've always been adored. You expect to be adored and so you are.

She was generally slightly resentful of people who made it obvious they didn't care less whether you liked them or not, because she herself was conscious of an unattractive need to please.

She always said yes to whoever asked her out. It wouldn't have occurred to her to say no.

She was so transparent. Always a Daddy's girl. It was Stan's approval she so desperately craved, as if it were withheld from her, and yet she'd always had it, from the moment he first held her. Brooke was Stan's favorite. Everyone knew it except for Brooke.

Yes I am the best even bobble heads tell me yes.

just this once I will say I approve of your impulse to transgress my edicts and admit you were quite right in following the instincts of your heart.

So the justices could plausibly assume that the decision they were about to hand down would meet with general public approval—as in fact it initially did, before the abortion issue became entangled, later in the 1970s, with partisan politics and the rise of the religious Right.

And yet, over time, the Court and the public seem to maintain a certain equilibrium. Public opinion polls regularly reflect that "diffuse" approval for the Supreme Court—that is, approval of the institution in general, rather than of particular actions—is higher than for other institutions of government.

I've told her not to come here expecting validation or exemption from the usual rules of human decency.