The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

- Austan Goolsbee

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

- David Antin

Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.

- Darren Boyd

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

- Denis Waitley

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

- Chris Morris

Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.

- Charles Platt

Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.

- Charles A. Beard

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

- Bainbridge Colby

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

- Barbara Walters

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

- Alice Eve

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

- Ambrose Bierce

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

- Archie Panjabi

Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

- Annie Jacobsen

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

- Anita Baker

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

- Agnetha Faltskog

Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.

- Andrew Rosenthal

Psychologically, I'll always be a fat girl because that's what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of people telling me I was ugly. I went out of my way to un-beautify myself. I didn't want anyone's approval.

- Alison Moyet

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

- Ariana Grande

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

- Andrew Carnegie

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

- Amy Lee