Appraising Quotes

#1. Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

Saint Francis De Sales

#2. It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

H.L. Mencken

#3. I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Stranger

#4. Sebastian smiled lazily as he came to her. Taking her shoulders in his hands, he slid an appraising
glance along her half-clad body. Don't remove a single freckle, sweet. I found some in the most
enchanting places. I already have my favorites ... shall I tell you where they are?

Lisa Kleypas

#5. It can remind you of the bias of provincial New England, whose higher culture has been so exclusively one of books that it has grown incapable even of appraising the worth of other modes of expression

F.O. Matthiessen

#6. I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment later, Miss Georgia returned the gesture ...

Jefferson Bass

#7. Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

Ben Goldacre

#8. I actually took a step back as each of their eyes met mine. Evan's was sympathetic; that scared me. Matt's was appraising; that concerned me. Griffins's was irritated; that ... was really nothing new.

S.C. Stephens

#9. Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

#10. Actually, I think I'm more into sleek-looking suits right now." I ran my fingers over the arm of his tuxedo and gave him an appraising stare. "You know, sort of that James Bond cool look.

Janette Rallison

#11. As laughter is one way of appraising the serious, so the comic must be taken seriously if it is to be rated at its true value. No one understands a joke by laughing at it; he laughs at it because he understands it.

James Walsh

#12. And here," she said. "Let me fix your tie." She tugged on his bow tie, her eyes appraising him, and he basked in it. He had left his tie crooked on purpose, just so she could straighten it.

Elin Hilderbrand

#13. I was appraising . . . not eye fooking.

Paul Allor

#14. Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan

#15. The part of the inexplicable should be al lowed for in appraising the conduct of men in a world where no explanation is final.

Joseph Conrad

#16. He takes a step forward, and I hate the way he looks at me. Appraising and approving. Hungry. It draws me in against my will, like he's flypaper, and everything inside me is buzzing and trying to wrench itself free.

Leisa Rayven

#17. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Cynthia Heimel

#18. The judgment day in your journey of appraising divine consciousness is the level of Truth Consciousness you achieve and become Soul-Realised to Enter Heaven.

Vishal Chipkar

#19. Fiction was not a panacea, but it did offer us a critical way of appraising and grasping the world - not just our world but that other world that had become the object of our desires.

Azar Nafisi

#20. Every time I find something redeeming about you the jerk side messes it up.

Mina Carter

#21. She screams my name, and I know she's coming.
God, I love her voice.

Emma Chase

#22. When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

Sonia Rumzi

#23. My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

Cory Booker

#24. I believe it's wrong to say someone can't do his or her job because of their heritage.

Rob Portman

#25. Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

Bianca Jagger

#26. You look like a protagonist.

Rainbow Rowell

#27. The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

John C. Maxwell