#praised

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

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

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#lover #modesty #more #praised #quality

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#cannot #god #i #praised #time

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat. ↗

— George Crabbe

#admit #all things #eat #friend #house

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#criticized #france #heavily #i #praised

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admired #being #fall #haven #little

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#believing #comfort #darkness #despair #gives

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#because #dangerously #i #loathe #most

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#asked #debate #excited #get #great