Applauses Quotes & Sayings

Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God. — Paul David Tripp

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own. — Francis Bacon

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace. — David Hume

Today the apologists of socialism are forced to distort facts and to misrepresent the manifest meaning of words when they want to make people believe in the compatibility of socialism and freedom. — Ludwig Von Mises

This is a very marvelous thing. A winter thing, when everything is pickled and preserved under glass. You can taste summer in this mixture, summer boiled down and soaked in brine, mummified, packed with spices to be born again on this table, in this place, in this snow. — Catherynne M Valente

Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses and a failing Olympics and successfully, conservatively governing a Democratic state. I am proud to endorse him and will work my hardest to ensure he is elected so we can turn around our country. — Nikki Haley

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it. — Heber J. Grant

Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool ... — George Eliot

I have just drunk the waters of Changsha
And come to eat the fish of Wuchang.
Now I am swimming across the great Yangtze,
Looking afar to the open sky of Chu.
Let the wind blow and waves beat,
Better far than idly strolling in a courtyard.
Today I am at ease.
"It was by a stream that the Master said--
'Thus do things flow away!' "
Sails move with the wind.
Tortoise and Snake are still.
Great plans are afoot:
A bridge will fly to span the north and south,
Turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare;
Walls of stone will stand upstream to the west
To hold back Wushan's clouds and rain
Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.
The mountain goddess if she is still there
Will marvel at a world so changed. — Mao Zedong

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor

Losing has nothing to do with geography. — Chuck Noll

Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage of life, while concience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if concience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value. — John Adams

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time. — Pat Nixon

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place. — Terence McKenna

The Chinese say that "the longest journey begins with the first step", and in many philosophical systems "endings and beginnings" are connected; as in the concept of yin and yang, two concentric circles joined together, forever united, forever opposed. If you can find a way to illustrate this in your screenplay, it is to your advantage. — Syd Field

Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. — Joseph Addison

Only one thing surprises me more than the stupidity with which most men live their lives and that is the intellegence inherent in that stupidity. [ ... ] The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest accident becomes imbued with great significance. — Fernando Pessoa