Approval Quotes - Page 5

The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.

We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."

The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.