Quotes About Approval

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

I think Hillary Clinton is terrific.

It's really great to have Harry Reid or whomever come say, 'Oh you're terrific.'

Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

You audition, and then you go and do what's called a test, your network test. So you have to go in front of the network and do it, and the network has to sign off on you.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Mean To His Horses seeks the approval of others, and not finding it, heaps it upon himself.

Darwin, on grounds such as this, believed that the human species is a moral one—that, in fact, we are the only moral animal. "A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them," he wrote. "We have no reason to suppose that any of the lower animals have this capacity.

on Gerda Lerner] As for stepping outside of patriarchal thought: "Being skeptical toward every known system of thought: being critical of all assumptions, ordering values and definitions . . . , developing intellectual courage, . . . the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all - that of intellectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorder the world.

mine. "Oh, I mean that as a compliment

All right already

What did the kids call it these days? Sweaty tryhard? When you bent over backward to get someone to like you?

This is how we define ourselves now, our worth determined by how many people like, follow, engage.

Candace nodded a little too hard. She loved making her ponytail swing.

It may sound as if Elizabeth and her husband were obedient and so earned God's approval, but, in truth, it was the other way around. God's power and strength at work in their lives made it possible for them to do the right thing in the first place.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally.

Every day was a gift, each year a miracle. She was living her whole life as a smash-and-grab, and he heartily approved.

This ceremony of approval was a charade - everything had been decided before we got here - and as with all charades it was wanly ebullient, necessary, and thin.