Approved Quotes:

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

- Felix Adler

source: "An Ethical Philosopy of Life". Book by Felix Adler, 1918.

topic: States, Certain, Approved

Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved.

- Bruce Campbell

source: Source: www.empireonline.com

topic: Mouths, Approved

People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?

- Erich Fromm

source: Erich Fromm (2014). “The Essential Fromm: Life Between Having and Being”, p.22, Open Road Media

topic: People, Protected, Approved

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

topic: Hate, Wicked, Guilt, Without Friends, Approved

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

- Pope Francis

topic: Inspirational, Gay, Doe, Accompany, Approved

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

topic: War, Enemy, Wish, My Wish, Approved

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Approved

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

- Richard Wagner

topic: Approved

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.592

topic: Democracy, Majority, Minorities, Pursued, Approved

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

- Lord Byron

source: "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Moore, Vol III, Chap. XVII, p. 208, 1830.

topic: Self, Envy, Doubt, Doubt And Certainty, Approved

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Mean, Justice, Guilt, Approved

Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

- Rumi

topic: Eye, Heart, Self, Approved, Self Approval

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

- Saint Basil

topic: Christian, Sight, Perfect, Orthodox Christian, Approved

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

- Frederick Scott Oliver

source: Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

topic: Character, Political, Doe, Approved

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785

topic: Innocent Person, Approved, Guilty Person

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

- John Foster Dulles

topic: Country, Impossible, Foreign Policy, Approved

But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

- Eusebius

topic: War, Men, Cities, Approved

When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

- Julian Barnes

topic: Falling In Love, May, Down And, Thumbs Down, Approved

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

- John Mica

topic: Friday, Two, Eight, Tsa, Happy Friday

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

- Frederick Douglass

source: "Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn".

topic: Mean, Men, Self, Self Made, Approved

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

- Solomon

topic: Being Happy, Heart, Wine, Approved

We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie and lots of gravy. Most players love it, but we also have a baked catfish for players who are still looking to stay on the approved diet.

- Mark Farner

topic: Country, Sweet, Player, Sweet Potatoes, Catfish

For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

- Riane Eisler

topic: Children, Men, Law, Stop Violence Against Women, Violence Against Women

I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

- Lillian Gish

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Way, Silent, Expressive, Talkies

I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat.

- Stephen Colbert

source: Stephen Colbert's Commencement Address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, www.alternet.org. June 5, 2006.

topic: Art, Nice, Mean, Career Advice, Doctorates

Obamacare is a disaster. And you remember, I called that from before it was approved. I said, "This can't work, because it's just... The plan is no good. The concept is no good," and it turned out to be much worse.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Obamacare, Remember, Disaster, Approved

In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: thedailyhatch.org

topic: Country, Mean, Eight, Habeas Corpus, Corpus

They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.

- Rudy Giuliani

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Wall, Years, Borders, Approved

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

topic: Years, Today, Use, Affirmative Action, Approved

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

- Dick Thornburgh

topic: Government, Self, Law, Puerto Rico, Rico

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Passion, Heaven, Special, Ascension, Commemoration

We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and unbridled desire of novelty, truth is not sought where it truly resides, and, with a disregard for the holy and apostolic traditions, other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, not approved by the Church are accepted as true, on which very vain men mistakenly think that truth itself is supported and sustained.

- Pope Gregory XVI

topic: Philosophy, Men, Thinking, Approved

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

- Pope Leo XIII

topic: Long, Taught, Neglect, Approved

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Letter to Noah Worcester, November 26, 1817.

topic: Peace, War, Views, Approved

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Names, France, World, Fertile, Approved

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

- Pope Pius X

topic: Miracle, Church, Rosary, Praying The Rosary, Approved

To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

- Bill Belichick

source: Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

topic: Football, Games, Play, Approved

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in front of the Senate and was approved 96-3 to be on the Supreme Court to replace conservative justice Byron White. This is in 1993.Now, Justice Ginsburg, it was noted earlier, was a general counsel for the ACLU, certainly a liberal group. It was abundantly clear during the confirmation hearing that Ginsburg would swing the balance of the court to the left.But because President [Bill] Clinton won the election and because Justice Ginsburg clearly had the intellectual ability and integrity to serve on the court, she was confirmed.

- Sam Brownback

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Integrity, Swings, White, President Bill Clinton, Approved

The Bush administration has apparently approved a plan to oust Saddam Hussein. I think that's President Bush's Father's Day gift to his Dad.

- Jay Leno

topic: Dad, Father, Thinking, Approved

The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to do so] and every miscreant had a high-falutin' lawyer at his side. Why don't more law firms vote with their feet and not take clients who have signs on them that say, "I'm a skunk and will be hard to handle?" I've noticed that firms that avoid trouble over long periods of time have an institutional process that tunes bad clients out. Boy, if I were running a law firm, I'd want a system like that because a lot of firms have a lot of bad clients.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Running, Boys, Law, Law Firms, Long Periods Of Time

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

- Saint Augustine

topic: Evil, Lazy, Taught, Treacherous, Contentious

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

- Peter Schiff

topic: Feel Good, Meals, Going Out, Indebted, Approved

Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.

- Thomas Sowell

source: Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Black And White, Differences, Justice, Approved

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Men, Judging, Doe, Approved

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: School, Sky, Mind, Lumber, Trustees

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

- Vance Havner

topic: Idols, Idol Worship, Spirit, Approved

The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act?

- Jay Leno

topic: Years, Names, Obamacare, Staff Members, Exemption

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

- Bruce Springsteen

source: "Bruce Springsteen voices support for gay marriage in New Jersey" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2009.

topic: Issues, Rights, Law, Approved

The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test.

- George W. Bush

source: "CNN Breaking News" with Leon Harris, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2002.

topic: Finals, Tests, Today, Approved

There's two approved methods for getting a pedicure for a guy. Number one, you use your own grinder or... You have an eighteen year-old Vietnamese girl rub your feet and call you Joe and that's it!

- Christopher Titus

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Years, Two, Eighteen Years Old, Pedicures

Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.

- John Creasey

topic: Writing, Editors, Ideas, One Piece, Approved

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.

- James Pearse Connelly

source: "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

topic: Nice, Design, Rendering, Approved

I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which I think is a cool jump of faith for them. Or proof that they're really stupid. But I don't think so.

- Paul Reubens

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Stupid, Thinking, Directors, Really Stupid, Approved