Top 348 Approved Quotes & Sayings

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.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

'Jeffree Star Approved' is copyrighted in America.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

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.

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

Truth is but approved facts.

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

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

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

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Abstinence is approved of God.

Given the right to - given the opportunity to vote, I voted for Brexit because I've never approved really of the European Union, I never approved of it because of its attempts to confiscate national sovereignty in all the issues that matter.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

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.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

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

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

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

I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved, and they're outstanding people.

Every movie is approved by the authorities keeping in mind the rules and regulations. Only then are these films released for public viewing.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

Onstage at Build, Phil Spencer said the Xbox is an open platform - which surprises me, because you have to get your game concept approved before you start developing it. Then you have to get every update approved. Microsoft has absolute control.

My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.

I'm so beautifully represented, so honored the Senate approved Rex Tillerson . He's going to be fantastic.

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.

There are so many ingredients that are approved for use. You can't be an expert on all of them.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

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.

[Bill Clinton] approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

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

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.