All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let… — Maverick Copy Share Image
I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal."… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
