Zitat des Tages über Gelobt / Praised:
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
I'm ecstatic: meeting Ranbir was like a dream come true for me, and to perform and be praised by him is like an icing on the cake. This memory, I would cherish for my entire life.
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.
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.
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.
White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
I feel like you have to use the platform you're given to voice concerns and also to praise things when they need to be praised.
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.
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
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.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
