After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to…

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to…

— Leroy Chiao

For he who is not deaf, half a silence is enough.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Law 36: Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best revenge.

— The 48 Laws Of Power

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts.…

— William Shatner

It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel…

— Eric Stoltz

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

— Khaled Hosseini

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

— Alan Hollinghurst

I've always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and…

— Gavin McInnes

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have…

— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire…

— Friedrich Nietzsche