Praised Quotes

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.