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approval
«I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.»
Author: Agnetha Faltskog
(Singer)
| About:
Approval,
Flattery
| Keywords:
approval, disapproval, flattery
«God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.»
«I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.»
Author: Johannes Kepler
(Astronomer)
| Keywords:
approval, masses, sharpest, The Masses, thoughtless
«Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
| Keywords:
approval, boy scout, Boy Scouts, congressional, Finn, honorary, huck, Huck Finn, scout, seal, Seal of, seal of approval
«Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns»
Author: Tehyi Hsieh
| About:
Approval
| Keywords:
approval, bed, lean, leaner, leans, Lean on Me, thorns, with approval
«Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
applause, approval, bronze, bronzed, casting vote, effigy, presents, self-satisfied, stand for, stand in, stare, The Crowd, the market
«Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.»
«It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
approval, conform, inborn, requirement, resist, seat, successfully
«Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
approval, associations, broadly, broadly speaking, corn, hardly a, mainly, pone, sympathies