Quotes About Approval

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.

There are some women, who, when heartbroken, have no interest whatsoever in other men. I wasn't one of them. On the contrary, I yearned for male approval as a form of restoration. Call me shallow, call me needy, call me whatever you like so long as you call me.

In the presence of resistance, we clam up. In the presence of approval, we blossom into goddesses.

L'ironie dénonce, le cynisme autorise.

But Billings was completely bewildered. His expression seemed to say that naturally they were people. "The word 'people'," Joe instructed in a dry, didactic manner, "used in this context at this ethnological stratum contains a specialized semantic content, signifying respect, approval, classifying you as superior in the humanities attitudes." Thus translated into simple English, Billings grasped the idea quickly.

The truth is, righteous anger is the right response to sin and far more consistent with God's character than faking happiness, approval, or acceptance.

I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching.

I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching.

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Later that night mutual approval took physical expression.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.

What follows as a natural consequence? Men reconcile themselves to swindling. Though they themselves mean to be honest, dishonesty of itself is no longer odious to them. Then there comes the jealousy that others should be growing rich with the approval of all the world, — and the natural aptitude to do what all the world approves. It seems to me that the existence of a Melmotte is not compatible with a wholesome state of things in general.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good. Had

Mr Alf never made enemies, for he praised no one, and, as far as the expression of his newspaper went, was satisfied with nothing.

George IV remained unwilling to give his Royal Assent to the bill until the very end. He did so finally, 'with pain and regret'

We liked being wild, but not nearly as much as we liked being acceptable.)

El que se deja llevar de la cólera en ocasiones dadas contra los que lo merezcan, haciéndolo además de la manera, en el momento, y durante todo el tiempo que convenga, debe merecer nuestra aprobación. Esta es, sépase bien, la verdadera mansedumbre, si la mansedumbre es digna de elogios.

He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods. I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.

Roberto nodded like a bobblehead doll on speed.' (Carlos)