Quote by Lorrie Moore

“Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”

— Gregory Maguire

“As pilgrims, we're wayfarers who dance with as much integrity, grace, and clarity as we can muster.”

— Mary Ellen Trahan

“You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character.”

— Virgina Woolf

“I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I hear it said that those whom…

— Vikram Seth

“It’s a dangerous thing to want everyone’s approval, Gabriella. You must be willing to stand firm and take the risk of being misunderstood. We…

— Elizabeth Musser

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Of course, it was a rather hard lot, to be cherished. The beloved can so easily disappoint when they inevitably prove to be human.”

— Katherine Howe

“I have written minutely of much that we did, for it was my wish that somewhere there should be a memorial of it all,…

— Tomás Ó Criomhthain

“If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.”

— Sally Robinson

“written, preserved, and passed on to us. What an indescribable blessing it is for us”

— Janette Oke

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

“Rather, debates are conducted, and crucial decisions arrived at, in the privacy and calm of the great houses of this country. What occurs under…

— Kazuo Ishiguro