Acclamation Quotes

#1. I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

Mary MacLane

#2. Platitude or not, the crowd erupted into applause, and by acclamation, Kuni Garu became the Duke of Zudi. A few pointed out that titles of nobility really couldn't be handed out in such a democratic fashion, but these killjoys were ignored.

Ken Liu

#3. George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

Tony Snow

#4. Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views ... The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Peter Drucker

#5. We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Edmund Burke

#6. People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#7. Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Peter Drucker

#8. Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.

Jennifer Niven

#9. Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.

Rafael Sabatini

#10. Start relying on God for everything, expecting and hoping to receive only His acclamation. Glorify Him and consecrate yourself to Him anew.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is
forgiveness.

Kristin Hannah

#13. What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release.

Stephen King

#14. Happiness is the ultimate destination for life.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

Jonathan Franzen

#16. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?

Haruki Murakami

#17. Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Victor Hugo

#18. I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

Jeff Lindsay

#19. If a bright light shines it's brightest among other bright lights, will we know how bright it really is?

EKD

#20. Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

Ravi Zacharias

#21. I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

Kirk Douglas