Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land… — Stephen Sizer Copy Share Image
The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their… — Andrzej Szczypiorski Copy Share Image
“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others. The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If you look at the Bernie Sanders of today and you look at the Bernie Sanders of a year ago [2015], when… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge… — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“But Joringel had no chance to answer. For Jorinda ran at her brother and threw her arms around him and held him… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
“Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men… — Herbert Newton Casson Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image