Approve Quotes

#1. Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.

Ma Jun

#2. Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

Jane Alexander

#3. Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Joyce Meyer

#4. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Maya Angelou

#5. All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

Charles Hodge

#7. A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

Jay Leno

#8. Their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.

Jane Austen

#9. I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

Julia Ward Howe

#10. This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.

Jan Smuts

#11. The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

#12. I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

Mildred D. Taylor

#13. He lay in darkness, like a sacrifice; he could hear the teeth of his leprosy devouring his flesh. There was a smell of contempt around him, insisting on his impotence. But his lips were bowed in a placid smile, a look of fondness, as if he had come at last to approve his disintegration.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#14. Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

Pasquier Quesnel

#15. I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal;

Thomas More

#16. I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

Patricia Wentworth

#17. Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C.S. Lewis

#18. What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.

J.K. Rowling

#20. As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483).

Richard Baxter

#21. Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

L'Wren Scott

#22. I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.

Neal Barnard

#23. The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.

Jasmine Guy

#24. I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

Glenn Gould

#25. Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.

David Ogilvy

#26. You can kill me, you mean. You can destroy my sense of self and replace it with one you approve of.

Ann Leckie

#27. I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland.

Clive Palmer

#28. I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

Julie Walters

#29. Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

C.I. Scofield

#30. Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

Stephen Ambrose

#31. If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

Glenn Reynolds

#32. Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

Horace

#33. The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

Jodi Rell

#34. Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Ovid

#35. Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

George Orwell

#36. Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Paulo Coelho

#37. Sicarius wore his usual guess-my-thoughts-if-you-can-mask, though she sensed he did not approve.

Lindsay Buroker

#38. It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.

Alain De Botton

#39. If a drug failed as often and had as many side effects as western marriage, the FDA probably would not approve it.

Ron Davison

#40. Now, I didn't approve of this marriage, but you've made your decision and you can't come running back home just because the going gets tough.

A. O'Connor

#41. When we approve of ourselves we do not need any further stamps from others.

Nithya Shanti

#42. Melanchthon concludes that "no sane person can approve this Pharisaical and pagan opinion about ex opere operato." (Ap.XXIV.13)

Jordan B Cooper

#43. Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Deepak Chopra

#44. All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

Asa Don Brown

#45. I haven't felt this way in a long time, Bastien."
His smile slowly faded. "Nor have I."
"I'm not going to refrain from exploring what's happening between us because others may not approve. It's too important.

Dianne Duvall

#46. I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Elizabeth Taylor

#47. I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

James Caan

#48. I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.

Louise Hay

#49. Stop caring about what other people think of you, how they perceive you, or if they approve of you. Start to focus on your inner peace.

Tisha Marie Payton, MHR

#50. I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

William The Silent

#51. Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].

Pope Leo XIII

#52. Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Franz Grillparzer

#53. When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

Tom Lehrer

#54. To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man's work. It is a bid to have him do what you will approve. It affects not only the one who wins the award, but all those who in any measure strive for it.

Robert Henri

#55. Those who fuck quickly and often. Not my style, I admit. But a style I approve.

Paul Hallam

#56. We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?

G.K. Chesterton

#57. I don't approve of religion.

Ayn Rand

#58. I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.

Vladimir Lenin

#59. Parents love their children. We might not always approve of the things you do, we might not like your friends, and cringe at some of the choices you make, but that doesn't change our love.

Debbie Macomber

#60. For none can express thee, though all should approve thee.
I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#61. I realized ... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing ...

Beverly Pepper

#62. I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't approve of her working after she had children. She didn't feel like she had choices.

Reese Witherspoon

#63. Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

David Letterman

#64. I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

E. M. Forster

#65. The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur

Jane Austen

#66. When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

Vladimir Voinovich

#67. I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Emmuska Orczy

#68. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

#69. Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Thomas Paine

#70. Jesus is the descent of God to our lives, just as they are, not the ascent of our lives to God, hoping he might approve when he sees how hard we try.

Eugene H. Peterson

#71. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Anthony Burgess

#72. I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#73. Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.

Paul Copan

#74. Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill these soldiers so that Small Saint and Bow Boy can escape, does that make me a hero?

Sherman Alexie

#75. Morpheus leans close. His hair brushes my exposed shoulder, tickling and soft. "Shy little blossom," he whispers, his sweet breath cloaking me. "We're simply going to meld your pain away."
Meld ... that doesn't sound like something my dad would approve of.

A.G. Howard

#76. It is pure id. Freud would not approve. He regarded the obvious with the same contempt most of us reserve for wine spritzers.

Eric Weiner

#77. Happiness is your responsibility, don't saddle someone else with it, don't postpone it until conditions suit your needs, and don't surrender it when you notice something you don't approve of.

D.S. Luca

#78. Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself?

Emil Cioran

#79. There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does ... and that someone is me

C.S. Lewis

#80. I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.

Tullian Tchividjian

#81. -understand. She'll want to visit her family."
"If she does, it can only be for a day at the most. I don't approve of her, but the people are fond of her, not to mention the Italians. It would be very inconvenient if she died.

Kiera Cass

#82. She doesn't know," Cate said. "Kellen is a secret. I didn't think my mother would approve."
"Why wouldn't your mother approve?" Pugg asked.
"It's my job," Kellen said. "I kill people. It pays well, but it's not universally socially acceptable.

Janet Evanovich

#83. Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names ... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.

Rick Riordan

#84. Though the Congress will have to approve your appointment," Washington went on, frowning a little, "and there's no guarantee as to what those contentious, shopkeeping sons of bitches will do.

Diana Gabaldon

#85. I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Anthony Bourdain

#86. I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Samuel Garth

#87. Though I normally approve of plain speaking, as you know, I would suggest that as part of your good behavior, you refer to the king as 'his grace' or even simply 'the king' instead of 'that creature,' by the way.

Susan Higginbotham

#88. In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.

Max Muller

#89. I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Epicurus

#90. And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Cornelia Funke

#91. Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.

Tara Mohr

#92. But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings.

George MacDonald

#93. Spiritual maturing is about releasing people to be whoever they are - even if you don't approve or like it.

Jacob Glass

#94. Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#95. Normally I don't approve of children staying up late,' he said finally, 'unless they are reading a very good book, seeing a wonderful movie, or attending a dinner party with fascinating guests.

Lemony Snicket

#96. Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends.

Bram Stoker

#97. My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

Archie Panjabi

#98. What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick

#99. He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.

Nicholas Sparks

#100. For years I said Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.

Joanna Russ