Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Aristotle

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Omar Cruz

That's to be expected, that they will have to perform their due diligence and see the results of the government's efforts to improve tax collections, ... The key thing here, we have implemented the expansion in the value-added tax and that we're keen on increasing it next year.

Michael Lombardi

I think this is a volatile league. A lot of things happen over time. You don't always have a true picture of the landscape early on. Doing your due diligence makes sense.

Larry Andrews

I don't have any problem with the penalty handed down. I think its fair. We have to be more diligent in the future so this doesn't happen again.

Bill Belichick

Hank is a smart player. He works hard. He is very diligent. He is a tough kid and he really puts a lot into the game.

John Connelly

If we're lucky, next spring. It's not going to be this fall. We're still doing all the due diligence that we have to do for all the permits.

Joseph Conway

Now we have to be even more diligent about it.

Woody Allen

Now we're in the final stages. There's a lot of (due diligence) work to be done in the next 120 days, but it feels good to get everybody on board.

Nicole Gibbons

She's a diligent person, and she refuses to stop. She's a go-getter.

Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Paul Kagame

Some of these decisions might not attract applause but certainly people have to understand that in the end, we shall all benefit,

Nancy Cartwright

I will not say ""Springfield"" just to get applause

Branch Rickey

The applause belongs to the teams. They are the ones who provided the fans an experience on such an exceptional level that enabled the League overall to reach this previously unattained plateau.

Oliver Goldsmith

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping

Christian Slater

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Mireille Mathieu

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

Robert Green Ingersoll

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Walt Whitman

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.