Approval Quotes

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.