Approval Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Political, Needs, Congress

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

  John Paul Stevens

  Punishment, Suffering, Trends

  Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35, www.law.cornell.edu. 2008.

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• The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said ... that science is a haven for freaks, that people go into science because they are misfits, and that it is a sheltered place where they can spin their own yarn and have recognition, be tolerated and happy, and have approval for it.

  Max Delbruck

  Motivation, Yarn, People

  Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, p. 87, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

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• If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pain, People, Ifs

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• I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

  Kofi Annan

  Iraq, Long, Support

  "Iraq war illegal, says Annan". BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. September 16, 2004.

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• We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Self, Forever, Honor

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• The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

  Theodor Adorno

  Fall, Eye, Self

  Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.103, Routledge

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• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Today, Events

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers”

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• Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Crush, Strong, Men

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• Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

  David Luiz

  Confidence, Inspiration, Life Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.

  Jane Fonda

  Mean, Winning, Speaks Out

  "The Reading Eagle" Newspaper, April 16, 1972.

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• To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

  Evan Esar

  Teenager, Being True, Ifs

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Merit

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.263, 谷月社

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• Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Vegas, Cities, Desert

  Nicholas Pileggi (2016). “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.

  Jud Wilhite

  Running, Guilt, Way

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• As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

  August Wilson

  Men, White, Long

  August Wilson (1991). “Three Plays”, Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to the rights of its citizens, but that it does not require Congress to give its approval before the president uses force abroad.

  John Yoo

  War, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can't get high off this stuff! I'm not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It's me saying, "I just want to live." And their response seems to be, "We agree that it's a matter of life and death; that's why we're declining it." Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.

  Jenny Lawson

  Agency, Life And Death, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.'

  David Letterman

  Approval Rating, Isis, United States

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• Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

  Joyce Meyer

  Accepting, Secure, Amount

  Twitter post from May 14, 2013

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• A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

  Bob Barr

  War, Fall, Approval Rating

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• A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Acceptance

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• Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Self, Mind, States

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.635, Simon and Schuster

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• Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mistake, Sleep, Tyrants

  "A Reply to Professor Haldane (1946)". "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1966.

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• For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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