Criticized Quotes

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.