When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.
The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.
Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.
[B]y 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.
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. "
Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.
Hillary Clinton is given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in the New York Times.
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.
As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms. " The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.
Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.
President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent.
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.