A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Adebayo Akinfenwa
Adebayo Akinfenwa

Everyone likes to be praised for their work and footballers are no different but the key thing is staying level-headed.

Adnan Sami
Adnan Sami

I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.

Aeschylus
Aeschylus

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Ahmet Zappa
Ahmet Zappa

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Ajith Kumar
Ajith Kumar

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.