If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.
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.
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.
To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
I don't say any word that I don't approve.
At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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.
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.
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent
Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it. . . Hilarious.
Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.
Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.