I’ve praised Obama’s record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it’s one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance.
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
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?
Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
Everyone likes to be praised for their work and footballers are no different but the key thing is staying level-headed.
One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they’re praised so often that it’s what they want to live as – brilliant – not as someone who ever makes mistakes. It really stunts their motivation.
We all want to be praised, right?
If we want equality, we shouldn’t then expect to be praised just because we’re doing a certain job. That’s not equality.
You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.
If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that’s why I can’t accept any compliments.
Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.
Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it’s exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.
It’s always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you’re glad when you get it.
I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Being praised constantly weakens you.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Raj Kundra kept telling me that Shilpa Shetty liked my videos and photos. This gave me more motivation to work on such videos. When you are motivated by people like Shilpa Shetty, you don’t understand what’s right and wrong. When I was praised for making such videos, it gave me a push to do more.
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.
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