I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.
It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.
Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.
I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears, notwithstanding that I was keenly aliv...
Author's Prayer If I speak for the dead, I must leave this animal of my body, I must write the same poem over and over for the empty page is a white flag of their surrender. If I speak of them, I must walk on the edge of myself, I must live as a blin...
If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon layi...
