“Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Musharraf has just gone against the constitution and displayed contempt of court and has shown that he has no respect for the… — Shehbaz Sharif Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Jean-Luc didn't like me to say any bad words in real life, and I would always do it on purpose, just for… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery… — John Gay Copy Share Image
We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
The fact is, no modern president, Democrat or Republican, has shown the level of contempt for taking questions from the media that… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“You will fear the one you have contempt for. There is contempt for a snake, a tiger; that is why you are… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“But they did not cower, did not weep. These people Jason discarded with such contempt, whom he could sentence to death with… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors… — Beth Ramsay Copy Share Image
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an… — Henry Sambrooke Leigh Copy Share Image
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image