#praised

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. ↗

— John Cleese

#father #flattered #god #know #like

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#accused #always #because #best #establishing

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#husband #little #pitied #praised #really

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance. ↗

— Patrick Gordon

#good #gracious #grant #his #i

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. ↗

— Billy Joel

#been #both #bothered #criticism #criticized

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#ever #fleas #his #praised

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#circle #exactly #praised #round

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. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#almost #anything #been #compromising #disgusting

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. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#come #damned #discouraged #encouraged #important

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? ↗

— Ana Castillo

#aesthetic #brown #could #everything #i