Criticize Quotes - Page 2

• How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?

  James Bovard

  Mcdonalds, President, Certificates

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Home, Government

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Long, Training, Weight

  20 Copy quote

• When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Government, Iran

  7 Copy quote

• My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

  Simon Cowell

  Attitude, Criticism, Faces

  16 Copy quote

• The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

  Frederic Raphael

  Doe, Vineyards, Television

  12 Copy quote

• How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Positive Thinking, Criticism, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.24, Gerald Duckworth & Co

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

  John Thune

  Thinking, Notion, Johnson

  "Ad ban plan at an impasse in South Dakota Senate race" by Robert Yoon, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2002.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

  Johnny Isakson

  Mother, Night, President

  7 Copy quote

• Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

  27 Copy quote

• It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

  Norm Coleman

  Real, Goal, Leader

  7 Copy quote

• The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

  J. William Fulbright

  Country, Patriotic, House

  "Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher". Book by Tristram Coffin, 1966.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Envy, Criticism

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.89, Criss Jami

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

  Todd Bridges

  Successful, Matter, Wells

  8 Copy quote

• You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Criticism, Critics, Ifs

  "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, People, Mind

  "Uh, who needs therapy? And which kind?". www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Witty, Powerful

  27 Copy quote

• What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

  Jean Cocteau

  Criticism, Critics

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Nature, Mistake, People

  8 Copy quote

• Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

  Chuck Jones

  Effort, Suggestions, Comment

  15 Copy quote

• They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Simple, United States, Care

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

  25 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

  110 Copy quote

  Show source

• If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

  Alice Miller

  Friendship, Real Friends, Gossip

  19 Copy quote

• You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

  Lucinda Williams

  Work, Praise, Process

  8 Copy quote

• I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Book, Writing

  53 Copy quote