“Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.” — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. — Saadi Copy Share Image
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.” — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Keep this in mind, my friends: don’t expect life to love you always! In life, you shall sometimes see true rejection and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
“Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
“...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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